Dear Gurus
We are evaluating the possibliity of using Lucene for our
Searching needs. I have few questions before we embark on this project
of evaluating Lucene
1) What are the various languages supported by Lucene.? Looks
like its able to handle only English . We are trying to see if it works
with Japanese / Chinese and other characters
Can some one answer
2) After Lucene indexes a given data set, how does Lucene handle
incremental / dymanic change in the data. In other words, our data keeps
changing ; how
does Lucene handle this changing data. Does it re-index
every new file entering this data set ?. Or Does it do it index the data
in increments ?
3) How does Lucene handle deleted files from a particular data
set ?. What we are concerned is that, does Lucene automatically figure
out if a particular file is deleted from the data set ?.
and it immediately removes the index to that particular file ?
4) Please consider the following Scenario. When Lucene is given
the following files to Index.
a) Files under /xyz/abc ( Say x.txt, y.txt, a.txt, b.txt,
c.txt etc.. )
b) Files under /def/ghi ( Say none.txt, dude.txt, hello.txt
etc.. )
So after Lucene finished indexing these file under these two
directories. And a subsequent search for say a "key word" in hello.txt
is made
What does Lucene return; does it return i.e the fully
qualified location of this file ? /def/ghi/hello.txt
5) How does Lucene index a particular set of files. I.e *based*
on key words ?. Based on sentences ? Based on what criterion ?
6) is Lucene multi-threaded ?. For example if Lucene is indexing
a set of files in a given data set, and for example if there is a Huge
file ( 2 GB file ). Does Lucene index this file in parts (i.e parallely
i.e in multi-threaded fashion ? or does it index this file
sequentially
7) Also if a data set has multiple files, does Lucene process each
file seperately in a different thread ? or does it do it sequentially
8) Does lucene index only text files ?. We have few data bases is
it possible for us to Index the data in these data bases ?
9) Are there any performance Bench Marks for Lucene
Thanks a lot in Advance!!
-- Thanks
Durga Deep Tirunagari
Santaclara, CA
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