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There’s a lot to Lucene, and there’s also a lot to ElasticSearch. And I think they’re fairly tightly coupled. But I do think that a well-funded and skilled sta
by vosper 5y ago
There’s a lot to Lucene, and there’s also a lot to ElasticSearch. And I think they’re fairly tightly coupled.
But I do think that a well-funded and skilled startup team could take a run at ES. They’re a monopoly in their niche. There has to be money in disrupting them.
- jFriedensreich 5y agoim sure its possible in theory, but without a permissive license it would be not relevant to most applications that are interesting. now try convincing a venture backed startup to build a lucene alternative and license it permissively after seeing what happend with amazon and es...
- PeterCorless 5y agoTantivy (written in Rust) uses MIT. I can't speak to the quality of the code, but their aim is to rewrite Lucene-type functionality as a Rust crate. https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy