You are correct. It can be used that way. I have also used it in the past to store recommendations data that was computed off-line. As volume increased we eventually had to move to alternative systems, but Lucene worked well for a long time.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Uwe Reimann <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using lucene before and I know it performs quite well. For my use > case it was fast enough to do instant search. I think the way lucene works > is pretty close to finding a user neighborhood in mahout, so leveraging > lucene's power for that came to my mind. I might be wrong here.
