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From the original engineering article on the twitter site, it seems they switched from a database backend (MySQL) to using Lucene and also heavily customized it
by cgopalan 16y ago
From the original engineering article on the twitter site, it seems they switched from a database backend (MySQL) to using Lucene and also heavily customized it. Maybe it was just a lesser hassle to interact with Lucene using Java. Would love to hear reasons directly from them.