Lucene with Simple Database

hi, I have till now used lucene mainly for searching through text files. I wanted to know if its sensible to use lucene with a database which does not have fields with large text values. for e.g. a table like id NameAddress 1Name1 name1,strreet1,city1,country1 2

java.io.IOException: Lock obtain timed out: Lock@/tmp/lucene-dcc982e203ef1d2aebb5d8a4b55b3a60-write.lock

Hi all, I am very new to lucene. I am using it in my application to index and serach through text files. And my program is more or less similar to the demo privided with lucene distribution. Initially everything was working fine without any problems. But today while running the application i have b