The general and short answer is: Highlighter: highlights more query types, has a fairly rich API, doesn't scale well to very large documents (though https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2939 is going to help a lot here) - does not require that you store term vectors, but is faster if you do.
FVH: works with fewer query types and requires that you store term vectors - but scales better than the std Highlighter to very large documents - Mark Miller lucidimagination.com Lucene/Solr User Conference May 25-26, San Francisco www.lucenerevolution.org On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:32 AM, shrinath.m wrote: > I was wondering whats the difference between the Lucene's 2 implementation of > highlighters... > I saw the javadoc of FVH, but it only says "another implementation of Lucene > Highlighter" ... > > Can someone throw some more light on this ? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Difference-between-regular-Highlighter-and-Fast-Vector-Highlighter-tp2763162p2763162.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
