You can use solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/)
Index on one machine and distribute the index to many.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 18:18, kgeeva <kgeevargh...@hoovers.com> wrote:
>
> I have an application clustered on two servers. Is the best practice to have
> two lucene indexes - one on each server for the app or is it best to have
> one index (on one physical path) which can be shared by both servers?
>
> Both the indexes need to be in sync 24/7.
> I would need to do updates and searches on the indexes. If I have two
> indexes and an update is made on one server should I call a method to update
> the second server index also to keep it in sync?
> I have read of the classes MultiSearcher and ParalleMultiSearcher to use for
> searching multiple indexes.
> Are there similar classes to update multiple indexes?
> Are there any issues with having a shared path for the index and multiple
> servers updating the same index?
>
> Thank you,
> Koshy
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