I know that the primary use case for Lucene is as an index of data that can be reconstructed (e.g., from a relational database or from spidering your corporate intranet).
But, I'm curious if anyone uses Lucene as their primary datastore for their gold data. Is it good enough? Would anyone consider (or do people already) store data in Lucene that, if it was lost, would destroy their business? And no, I'm not suggesting that you don't back up this data, I'm just curious if there are problems with using Lucene in this way. Are there subtle corruptions that might show up in Lucene that wouldn't show up in Oracle or MySQL? I'm considering using Lucene in this way but I haven't been able to find any documentation describing this use case. Are there any studies of Lucene vs MySQL running for N years comparing the corruptions and recovery times? Am I just ignorant and scared of Lucene and too trusting of Oracle and MySQL? Thanks. -guido. (BTW, I did find a similar question asked back in 2007 in the archives but it doesn't really answer my question) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
