Given adequate hardware, it can. Take a look at nutch.org. Nutch uses Lucene at its core.
Otis --- Chris Fraschetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the index size is very dependent on the content being index... > > but running on a unix based machine w/o a filesize limit, best case > scenario... what is the largest number of documents that can be > indexed. > > I've seen throughout the list mentions of millions of documents.. 8 > million, 20 million, etc etc.. but can lucene potentially handle > billions of documents and still efficiently search through them? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
