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Apache Lucene Core
Apache Lucene™ is a high-performance, full-featured search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires structured search, full-text search, faceting, nearest-neighbor search across high-dimensionality vectors, spell correction or query suggestions.
Apache Lucene is an open source project available for free download. Please use the links on the right to access Lucene.
Lucene™ Features
Lucene offers powerful features through a simple API:
Scalable, High-Performance Indexing
- over 800GB/hour on modern hardware
- small RAM requirements -- only 1MB heap
- incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing
- index size roughly 20-30% the size of text indexed
Powerful, Accurate and Efficient Search Algorithms
- ranked searching -- best results returned first
- many powerful query types: phrase queries, wildcard queries, proximity queries, range queries and more
- fielded searching (e.g. title, author, contents)
- nearest-neighbor search for high-dimensionality vectors
- sorting by any field
- multiple-index searching with merged results
- allows simultaneous update and searching
- flexible faceting, highlighting, joins and result grouping
- fast, memory-efficient and typo-tolerant suggesters
- pluggable ranking models, including the Vector Space Model and Okapi BM25
- configurable storage engine (codecs)
Search performance of Apache Lucene is tracked in muliple places. Check out
- Mike McCandless' nightly benchmarks for Lucene for an historical view of Lucene's query performance, going back to 2011 for some queries
- Search Benchmark, the Game for a comparison of Lucene with other search engines
Cross-Platform Solution
- Available as Open Source software under the Apache License which lets you use Lucene in both commercial and Open Source programs
- 100%-pure Java
- Implementations in other programming languages available
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Related Projects
- Apache Solr
- Apache Hadoop
- Apache ManifoldCF
- Apache Lucene.Net
- Apache Mahout
- Apache Nutch
- Apache OpenNLP
- Apache Tika
- Apache Zookeeper
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