Search engine Lucene vs Database search

Question

I am using a MySQL database and have been using database driven search. Any advantages and disadvantages of database engines and Lucene search engine? I would like to have sugge

Answer 1

We used Sql Server at work to make some queries which used Fulltext search. In case of big amounts of data Sql makes an inner join between result set returned by FullText search and the rest of the query which might be slow if database is running on the low powered machine (2GB ram for 20 GB of data). Switching the same query to Lucene improved speed considerably.