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plus, from the reading I did, the founders have been working in the search space for a long time and really seem to know what they're doing. Lucene is great, b
by pcsanwald 9y ago
plus, from the reading I did, the founders have been working in the search space for a long time and really seem to know what they're doing.
Lucene is great, but, it does have limitations: tough to embed in non-JVM applications and poor support for tokenizing things like emojis are two immediate things that come to mind.
Elasticsearch is maybe my favorite data storage product in the last 15 years, but the Algolia folks have taken a different approach that is also quite interesting.
- rpedela 9y agoCan you expand on emoji tokenization? I don't understand what you mean?
- pcsanwald 9y agothe lucene standard tokenizer doesn't offer support for tokenizing emojis: it strips them out. I'm not aware of any lucene tokenizer that does support emojis tokenization. This isn't a huge deal, as lucene is open source and tokenizers can be written, but I'm just highlighting it as a shortcoming that's illustrative of the time and place lucene evolved from.