Most devs don't know that there is CLucene, a C++ port of the Java based Lucene. It's lacking devs, so it's some versions behind. An alternative to CLucene and

Most devs don't know that there is CLucene, a C++ port of the Java based Lucene. It's lacking devs, so it's some versions behind. An alternative to CLucene and also native C++ is Sphinx search (similar to CLucene what Nginx is to Apache). Also SQLite has an official full text search addon named FTS4. Lucene in Action 1st and 2nd edition are great books, I have them both. The first edition was like the missing manual and it covers the API of the Lucene 1.4 with its rather rough API objects. Lucene 2.x+ API improved a lot.