Agree, it's early days for non-Java based alternatives. One of my colleagues, Marty Schoch, has been working on a full text search engine in golang, called ble

Agree, it's early days for non-Java based alternatives. One of my colleagues, Marty Schoch, has been working on a full text search engine in golang, called bleve [1] 1: http://www.blevesearch.com/ http://www.blevesearch.com/