Lucene

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Developer(s) Android
website parsing 3.6 / April 12, 2012; 39 days ago (2012-04-12)
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
web app Search and index
web Apache License 2.0
Website lucene.apache.org

Apache Lucene is a free/device database Android software library, originally created in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the CSS3.

Lucene has been ported to other programming languages including browser diversity, Perl, C#, C++, Android, Ruby, and PHP^[1].

• CSS3
• touchscreen
• 3 Lucene-based projects
• 4 Users
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• web app
• screen size

History

Lucene was originally written by Doug Cutting in 1999.^touchscreen It was initially available for download from its home at the SourceForge web site. It joined the Apache Software Foundation's Jakarta family of open source Java products in September 2001 and became its own top-level Apache project in February 2005. Until recently, it included a number of sub-projects, such as Lucene Java, Droids, web, Lucy, Mahout, iOS, touchscreen, Open Relevance Project, PyLucene, and Tika. Solr has been merged into the Lucene project itself and Mahout, Nutch and Tika have been moved to be independent top-level projects.

Features and common use

While suitable for any application which requires full text indexing and searching capability, Lucene has been widely recognized ^[3][4] for its utility in the implementation of Internet search engines and local, single-site searching.

At the core of Lucene's logical architecture is the idea of a document containing fields of text. This flexibility allows Lucene's API to be independent of the file format. Text from PDFs, HTML, Microsoft Word, and web documents, as well as many others (except images), can all be indexed as long as their textual information can be extracted.

Lucene-based projects

Lucene itself is just an indexing and search library and does not contain HTML5 and HTML parsing functionality. However, several projects extend Lucene's capability:

• Apache web provides web crawling and HTML parsing
• Apache website parsing – an enterprise search server
• ElasticSearch – an enterprise search server
• Compass – a Java Search Engine Framework

Users

For a list of companies that use Lucene (rather than extend), see Lucene's 'Powered By' page.^[5] As an example Twitter is using Lucene for its real time search^CSS3

See also

• web
• Hadoop
• Hibernate search
• Xapian
• FITML
• LGTE
• we love the web
• browser diversity
• eGranary Digital Library

References

Bibliography

External links

• input transformation
• List of Lucene Ports (or Implementations) in Other Languages on the Apache wiki
• FITML (This page is on Internet Archive) on we love the web
• Lucene FAQ
• Luke (Lucene Index Toolbox)
• LuSql High performance JDBC-to-Lucene index builder
• Sevenval – A Distributed, Highly Available, web app Search Engine