Lucene Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am wondering if Lucene is the way to go for my project. > > Probably. Tell us a little about your project.
It's pretty basic. I'm just indexing 4 large text files, ranging up to 100MB in size. They don't ever change, and are on a CD-ROM. Each file contains a bunch of small documents. I just create one index for all 4 of them. These documents are for an association that I belong to - they contain a history of the association's documents - and my application allows you to search them. They are actually currently indexed by an application called 'Sonar', by Virginia Systems. But I REALLY didn't like using their user interface - blech - so I decided to write a new interface for my own use. But Sonar costs some real bucks to be able to develop against their search API, so I found Lucene, and decided to go with it. Here are the search features that 'Sonar' has : Boolean Searching Proximity Searching Wild Card Searching Field/Block Searching Relevancy Ranking / Date Ranking List of Occurrences in Context Phonetic Searching Synonyms/Concepts Relational Searching Associated Words Drill Down Search Narrowing I think that Lucene has all the features in the first group. How does it stack up against the second group ? I'm writing the whole thing in Swing, which has been time consuming, and so have invested quite a bit of time into this project. But I'm seeing the end of the tunnel, and want to make sure that I'm going down the right path before I spend too much more time on it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven J. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:34 AM Subject: Re: Lucene features > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:45:25AM -0400, Chris Sibert wrote: > > I am wondering if Lucene is the way to go for my project. > > Probably. Tell us a little about your project. > > > I don't know what other search engines are available out there, > > Lucene isn't a search engine _application_, it's a search engine > _API_. Lucene gives you what you need in order to build the search > engine you want, instead of spending gobs of time trying to figure out > the 10,000 options available for a search engine application, or > trying to warp somebody else's ideas of what you need to meet what you > really need. > > > and how Lucene stacks up against them. > > Pretty well, if you're willing to put a (very) little time and > energy into to building the application you need. I know. I've done > it. > > > I am wondering if Lucene has a full set of searching features, > > comparable to what I might find in a reasonably priced commercial > > package. > > There is no comparison :-). Lucene is a fundamentally decent > piece of technology. This puts it head and shoulders above most > commercial packages. > > Specifically, the Lucene search engine API is blindingly fast at > searching and at indexing, and comes with several built-in packages to > provide several of the commonly needed functions (like a web search > engine style query language parser). > > Additionally, a wide variety of people have been down this road > and done a wide variety of things with Lucene, so you're likely to be > able to find examples, in the Lucene sandbox or in the lucene-user > archives, of how to do whatever it is you want to do. > > > Anyone with a solid knowledge of Lucene care to make me feel warm > > and fuzzy about my decision so far to use Lucene ? > > Tell us a little more about your project requirements and I'll > tell you enough specifics to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling. > Lucene isn't perfect for _everything_ (and anybody who claims that a > given technology *is* perfect for _everything_ is lying). But it's > quite good for a number of things. > > -- > Steven J. Owens > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong, > declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night and > this document will be four times longer and much less fun to read. > Take it all with a grain of salt." - Me at http://darksleep.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
