IMO, this is one of the better discussed comparisons on the whole Lucene sharding business: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201006.mbox/%3C

IMO, this is one of the better discussed comparisons on the whole Lucene sharding business: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201006.mbox/%3C149150.78881.qm@web50304.mail.re2.yahoo.com%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201006.m... EDIT: Also, keep an eye on Twitter's Lucene branch - http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/10/twitters-new-search-architecture.html http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/10/twitters-new-search-a...