--- title: Apache Lucene Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Lucene Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 11 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Lucene works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 11 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Apache Lucene Reviews & Product Details Apache Lucene, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Lucene Community](https://www.g2.com/products/the-apache-software-foundation-apache-lucene/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Algolia](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Algolia") Algolia 4.5/5(453) ](https://www.g2.com/products/algolia/reviews) [ ![Coveo](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Coveo") Coveo 4.3/5(142) ](https://www.g2.com/products/coveo/reviews) [ ![Elasticsearch](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Elasticsearch") Elasticsearch 4.5/5(292) ](https://www.g2.com/products/elastic-elasticsearch/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/the-apache-software-foundation-apache-lucene/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 11 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Michael G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michael G.") MG Michael G. Developer Analyst Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/28/2017 "Lucene (via SOLR and Elasticsearch) in an Academic Library" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Lucene? 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. What do you dislike about Apache Lucene? 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. Recommendations to others considering Apache Lucene: Considering coupling Lucene with something like SOLR or Elasticsearch in order to simply the indexing and retrieval of documents, as well as speeding up your development lifecycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Lucene solving and how is that benefiting you? The full text search and faceting enabled our library to move into the 20th century in terms of providing a full-featured search tool to our patrons. We used Lucene in conjunction with SOLR to index and expose our metadata from a variety of sources, including MARC, EAD, and HTML data. We eventually incorporated Elasticsearch into the mix to deal with unstructured JSON data (as it can operate without an official schema). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/3/2018 "License for better indexing" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Lucene? 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. What do you dislike about Apache Lucene? Pricing for enterprise license is high compared to other solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Lucene solving and how is that benefiting you? Indexing and searching higher number of records Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") AI Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/7/2016 "Great for improved search speed and relevance" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Lucene? 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. What do you dislike about Apache Lucene? 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. Recommendations to others considering Apache Lucene: It takes little effort to create a prototype search using lucene with SOLR, in which you will immediately see the benefits out of the box, with a large amount of additional features to further improve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Lucene solving and how is that benefiting you? We had a slow and expensive database cluster containing multiple servers to cope with traffic and speed requirements, we needed something cheaper, faster and more relevance to our search. Moving to Lucene provided this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") IC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/25/2016 "powerful search engine framework that lets us add search capability to our application" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Lucene? 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. What do you dislike about Apache Lucene? it is not that flexible. sometime different version has different function for same job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Lucene solving and how is that benefiting you? indexing document, retrieving document , searching for desired keyword in documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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