Check out these articles on this topic. Hope it helps. http://www.findbestopensource.com/article-detail/lucene-solr-as-nosql-db http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/04/30/nosql-lucene-and-solr/
In nutshell, It is good to use Lucene as NoSQL but better have your data stored in some persistent store like file system or a database. Regards Aditya www.findbestopensource.com On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Hank Williams <hank...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I want to set up a database that is totally flat with no joins, is > there any reason not to use lucene. The reasons I would be curious about > are things like insert performance and whether there are any queries that > either don't work in lucene or perform better in MySQL/postgres. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >