Re: ElasticSearch

2011-11-16 Thread Bill Mitchell
Under the covers, ElasticSearch contains mutliple lucene indexes -- so the full expressiveness of lucene queries are translatable to ElasticSearch -- but the benefit of using ES as an abstraction layer to give sharded searches is something attractive enough that we're looking at it too. ;) We typ

Maximum size of query to Lucene 2.4.1

2011-08-23 Thread Bill Mitchell
I have an application using Hibernate Search 3.1.1-GA with Lucene 2.4.1 (via lucene-snowball-2.4.1.jar ) on the backend. Our query terms have gotten fairly lengthy (but not complex), consisting of queries such as * "FOOBAR TERM" AND NOT (FOOBAZ OR FOOBLA OR JUNK)* We've gone up to queries of