Which are the best alternatives to Lucene? [closed]

Answer 1

The ones I can come up with now is native DBMS-full-text-indexing (MSSQL, MySQL both has implementations for it) aswell as Sphinx http://www.sphinxsearch.com/about.html

The advantage with Sphinx is easier integration with MySQL and PostgreSQL, however Lucene is more feature-rich.

Answer 2

Some alternative indexers are mentioned here:

Which search technology to use with ASP.NET?

Answer 3

Minion from Oracle Labs is a very interesting alternative to Lucene and Xapian.

Among other interesting features, it supports search results clustering.

Answer 4

There is now also Elastic Search. AFAIK Stackexchange has switched to it or is in the process of doing so. (correct me if I'm wrong)

Answer 5

Check out the search-index module for node (https://github.com/fergiemcdowall/search-index). Its like a simplified, leaner lucene for Node.js.

Answer 6

For simple things native full-text search of your RDBMS.

• Full text search in PostgreSQL
• FTS2 in SQLite
• Full text search in MySQL
• Oracle Text in Oracle DB
• Full text search in Microsoft SQL Server