Re: Lucene applicability

2010-08-31 Thread Erick Erickson
terms of an application, not an engine. Lucene is what you build your application around, it provides the guts of the searching. The rest is up to your. HTH Erick Cheers, > > w > > > -Original Message- > From: Lance Norskog [mailto:goks...@gmail.com] > Sent: Donnerst

RE: Lucene applicability

2010-08-31 Thread Schreiner Wolfgang
Cheers, w -Original Message- From: Lance Norskog [mailto:goks...@gmail.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 26. August 2010 05:25 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Lucene applicability A stepping stone to the above is that, in DB terms, a Lucene index is only one table. It has a suite of indexing fea

Re: Lucene applicability

2010-08-25 Thread Lance Norskog
A stepping stone to the above is that, in DB terms, a Lucene index is only one table. It has a suite of indexing features that are very different from database search. The features are oriented to searching large bodies of text for "ideas" rather than concrete words. It searches a lot faster than a

Re: Lucene applicability

2010-08-25 Thread Erick Erickson
The SOLR wiki has lots of good information, start there: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ Otherwise, see below... On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Schreiner Wolfgang < wolfgang.schrei...@itsv.at> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are currently evaluating potential search frameworks (such as Hibernate > Search

Re: Lucene applicability

2010-08-25 Thread Chris Lu
I see you are coming from the database world. To get a better understanding of Lucene, I would suggest you use the free version of DBSight, which let you create Lucene index with SQL after a few clicks. Basically Lucene is more like a list of denormalized documents. So if you change your database

Lucene applicability

2010-08-25 Thread Schreiner Wolfgang
Hi all, We are currently evaluating potential search frameworks (such as Hibernate Search) which might be suitable to use in our project (using Spring, JPA with Hibernate) ... I am sending this E-Mail in hope you can advise me on a few issues that would help us in our decision making process.