[Xapian-devel] chert vs flint vs lucene

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:34:11PM -0800, towel moist wrote:
> What's the main difference between chert and flint?  What above vs lucene?

Flint is documented here:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FlintBackend

The user-visible change in Chert are covered in here (to find them,
search for "chert backend:"):

http://trac.xapian.org/browser/trunk/xapian-core/NEWS

That should be complete at present, but there are likely to be further
changes before chert is declared "finished".

I don't know of any comparisons with Lucene's low level details.

Cheers,
    Olly