Apache Lucene Reviews & Product Details

Easy Implementation and writing/generating Lucene queries are very easy. The implementation is very fast and effective wrappers can be built around it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limitations on some logical operator. For example, operators like exclusive OR might be difficult to write as lucene query in complex situations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Full text indexing and faceting controls are Lucene's true strength. You can easily index data based on a schema and immediately search across the whole index with blazing speeds. Sharding allowed for the index to be load balanced and mirrored across multiple back end nodes, providing a fault-tolerant search system. The buy-in from administrators was fairly easy as many of the top federated search engines within the academic library space are powered in some way by Lucene. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup is not trivial for vanilla Lucene. It helps to use something like SOLR or Elasticsearch that sits on top of Lucene to allow for your applications to easily interact with the backend. SOLR provides a great API (with XML and JSON output) for indexing and retrieving data. The statistics capability are the time we used it had a lot of room for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is great for indexing and searching. I have used this library in Global Credit Expansion project where it deals with millions of financial records which require quick search capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing for enterprise license is high compared to other solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy integration of our code to Apache Solr Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would have been better to have some more manual configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

very easy to install and setup. Administration is fairly easy as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

not as robust as elasticsearch is. Also cron based. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lucene has allowed us to greatly improve our search performance and relevance, by easily indexing all of our data, and with very little configuration for the search we were able to greatly improve how the search product was delivered to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lucene indexes on their own are difficult to maintain and search without experience, to make the most of them they need to be combined with SOLR, this also adds additional functionality which may bloat the application if it is not needed.

The tool that the SOLR addition of Lucene provides needs improvement, although it works and does its job and was difficult to set up and get to work in a large scale production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lucene has vastly improved our in house document search, both with Speed and relevance. After indexing the documents using the built in feeder, there is a great number of ways to manipulate how you break down your data and improve the way you search, using the SOLR interface makes it easy to run queries on data. It was also able to provide a geographical search based on lat/long of the data. Even running lucene without any modifications to the config we were able to immediately see an improvement in speed and relevance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The in built feeder was a bit difficult to configure and get working, and even when it was working it was very slow and would often stop working for no apparent reason, after looking into it further we were made aware that this is not meant for production use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Lucene because it's a search engine implemented in Java. Java is a easy-to-understand language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like Lucene because of its incomplete implementations, especially for recent state-of-the-art retrieval approaches. When I compare it with the Lemur toolkit, it misses several components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It exposes easy-to-use API while hiding all the search-related complex operations. Any application can use this library.

Lucene handles all the search related operations. Any application can use lucene framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it is not that flexible. sometime different version has different function for same job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It scales well horizontally. Throw this in from of Cassandra and call it a day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be difficult to get up and running and diagnose production issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.