If you're looking for a quick, manageable solution for Full-text search on SQL Server data, I recommend taking a look at Solr. Solr is like a huge management layer around Lucene and hides a lot of the details, even though you can still get at them through config files.
It has a GREAT Data Import Handler which does all the heavy lifting for you to connect to Sql Server. I was able to set up indexing 15 million news articles in one afternoon. For indexing PDF's and such, Solr has dedicated handlers, which I haven't used but seem pretty easy to set up. Solr is a full java solution, but don't let that scare you as it is easy to set up and lot of help is available. There is a SolrNet library which allows easy access to all the solr functions from a .net app. This tutorial is particular handy: http://crazorsharp.blogspot.com/2010/01/full-text-search-using-solr-lucene-and.html Other than that, I recommend reading the book Lucene in Action, or the Solr book. There are also LOTS of good tutorials available René -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Powell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: woensdag 2 februari 2011 1:05 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question You don't actually install Lucene.Net, it's just a library which you reference into your application. Solr is an installable Lucene service, which essentially provides RESTful endpoints to Lucene (java), or so goes my understanding. With regards to what you can search with Lucene, well that really comes down to anything you can push into the index. Keep in mind that Lucene is just a indexer and searcher, it's not a crawler or anything. You have to push the data to the indexer, and you have to write queries to get it back out. I've got some blogs on my site about getting started with Lucene.Net - http://www.aaron-powell.com/lucene-net-overview Aaron Powell Umbraco Core Team Member <http://umbraco.codeplex.com> | FunnelWeb Team Member <http://funnelweblog.com> http://www.aaron-powell.com | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | MSN: [email protected] On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Lucas E Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am new to Lucene and have the following questions. What is the best way > to understand what is required to install Lucene in a server? Also, can i > make Lucene run searches on links to xml data on the web?Thanks >
