Re: Lucene Newbie Questions

2010-05-31 Thread N Hira
ing. You should be able to "try both" side-by-side in a few hours (the tutorials are pretty decent). -h - Original Message From: Frank A To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Mon, May 31, 2010 6:54:26 PM Subject: Re: Lucene Newbie Questions Thanks a bunch. Since I'

Re: Lucene Newbie Questions

2010-05-31 Thread Shashi Kant
Based on your description, I would recommend Solr. It provides several features such as spelling suggestion, faceting etc. OOTB. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/features.html should answer all your questions. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Frank A wrote: > Thanks a bunch. > > Since I'm already

Re: Lucene Newbie Questions

2010-05-31 Thread Frank A
Thanks a bunch. Since I'm already inside a java based web application it would seem like both SOLR and Lucene would be plausible. I'm curious what other factors I should know about in determing if SOLR or Lucene is right for me. Can SOLR be used within a web application (as a library) or is it o

Re: Lucene Newbie Questions

2010-05-31 Thread N Hira
Frank -- Lucene can definitely do this stuff. This review of the Query Syntax might offer you some insight: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html Specifically, you can look up "Fuzzy Searches" and "Synonyms". There are a couple of key ways to handle synonyms, so you might

Re: Lucene Newbie Questions

2010-05-31 Thread Shashi Kant
You are certainly in the right place - Apache Solr (a search server built using Lucene) provides what you are looking for out of the box. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Frank A wrote: > Hello all, > I'm considering Lucene for a specific application and am trying to ensure > that it is the righ