Solr vs Lucene Comparison

When it comes to open-source search engines, Apache Lucene and Apache Solr are two popular choices. They both serve similar…

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Lucene MMapDirectory and ByteBuffersDirectory Examples

Apache Lucene is a powerful search library written in Java. It provides various directory implementations for storing index files, such…

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Apache Lucene performance on 128-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

Almost a decade ago, I started running Lucene’s nightly benchmarks, and have been trying with mixed success to keep them…

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Concurrent query execution in Apache Lucene

Apache Lucene is a wonderfully concurrent pure Java search engine, easily able to saturate the available CPU or IO resources…

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Apache Lucene 7.0 Is Coming Soon!

The Apache Lucene project will likely release its next major release, 7.0, in a few months! Remember that Lucene developers generally try…

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Jirasearch 2.0 dog food: using Lucene to find our Jira issues

A few years ago I first built and released Jirasearch as a fun dog-food test case for the thin-wrapper Lucene server, to…

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How to handle Stop Words in Hibernate Search 5.5.2 / Apache Lucene 5.4.x?

The Stop Words like [“a”, “an”, “and”, “are”, “as”, “at”, “be”, “but”, “by”, “for”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “is”, “it”, “no”,…

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Learning Lucene

I am currently working with a team starting a new project based on Lucene. While most of the time I…

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Lucene Analysis Process Guide

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Apache Lucene Fundamentals. In this course, you will get an introduction…

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