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Has anyone had success/experience with Lucene or similar?
All the cool kids are using Elasticsearch. Like howard says, rolling your own is for chumps. Get your devs up to speed on Elastic integration, use it for everything, then use the many, many weeks of work that you'll have saved to go down the pub for non-stop celebratory beers.
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Elasticsearch looks good, thanks for the link. Apparently it's based on Lucene again. It looks ideal.
@Howard
The search we currently have is nowhere near 'pretty darn good', but it scrapes in at 'good enough'.Because it's now 'good enough', it's not a top priority, but I know the monster that lies beneath, and I'll get Elasticsearch or Lucene in there one day.
cyclotron3k
Web developers; have you made a reasonably complicated website (e.g. CRM, ERP, SCM, etc), and successfully implemented a search function?
The last two projects I've been on, search has been a bit of an after-thought. For the developer the code tends to be an unmaintainable and organic mess, and for the end user, the results are poor and often very slow to return.
Has anyone had success/experience with Lucene or similar?