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If you've never heard of Lucene and are wondering why you should care, the IBM quick start guide is a decent place to get to know what it is and what you can do
by shadowmint 14y ago
If you've never heard of Lucene and are wondering why you should care, the IBM quick start guide is a decent place to get to know what it is and what you can do with it:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/os-apache-lucenesearch/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/os-apache-luc...
Basically, its a search engine; if you need to run one of those yourself, it's really neat.
- encoderer 14y agoLucene + Solr is also a NoSQL database. Not the best choice for every circumstance but then again, nothing really is.
- mattdeboard 14y agoIndeed. But its capabilities don't really take it above what you'd get out of a normal relational DB. Or even a more traditional key/value store.
- mej10 14y agoI would add that it is pretty easy to get started with on Rails as well. Using the Sunspot library for Solr is super easy to use and has been really flexible for our use cases. It is a solid piece of software.