On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:27 PM, James Reynolds wrote:
Please forgive this low tech question, but I'm wondering if Lucene
is an
appropriate solution for a challenge I'm facing. I need a quick
look up
method for a growing list of customers in a database (the alphabetical
select list has become too cumbersome).
Lucene seems to be an excellent option for a key word search, but I
wonder if it's overkill for my relatively simple need. Have other
users
leveraged Lucene in this manner?
Certainly Lucene could do this quite easily, but since you're already
using a database it would be worth it to explore whether LIKE queries
or full-text capabilities of your database will achieve what you're
after without adding another dependency and related code to your
project.
It wouldn't be overkill to use Lucene for this scenario at all if you
can't achieve what you're after within your database as-is.
Erik
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