[Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net

[Peter Karman]

I posted this here some time ago:

http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/manual/ch/ch17.html#id2564648

That's a brief feature comparison of Lucene, Xapian and Swish-e. It does not 
have any benchmarks or test code; it's a layperson's introduction to indexing 
document collections and looks at those 3 OSS tools at a feature level.

pek

Oscar Usifer scribbled on 8/30/06 3:16 PM:
> Folks,
> 
> We too were looking down the roads of adopting either Lucene, Xapian or
> Swish-e. At certain points during the architectural phase a good thorough
> comparison would have/still is worth MUCH, and some technical papers do exist
> from research universities (e.g.
> http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/xtf/Search_Engine_Comparison.pdf). I
> have not spent a lot of time looking for papers from Symposium Proceedings,
> Technical Journals, etc, so perhaps others can contribute/comment -- and boy
> is this an annual event on respective project lists(!)? Otherwise I see that
> then entire transcript of the flame-exchange was not posted, but would be
> very amused to read it (naturally off the list) :-) :-)
> 
> Thanks, -OSC
> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reini Urban" <rurban at x-ray.at> To:
>> xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] xapian vs
>> lucene.net Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:54:18 +0200
>> 
>> 
>> Rafael Jorge schrieb:
>>> Well, your message smell like a Troll (I hope that isn't), btw... This
>>> discussion fall in "my dad is better than your", I like Xapian, the
>>> Lucene for me is very "Java", and I don't like it, today I can write
>>> programs in too much languages with the same Search Backend.
>>> 
>>> Good to you that Lucene is better for your case, but not for me, and
>>> anothers people.
>> You misunderstood that. xapian was better for my company, so I can continue
>> to improve my patches and I'll have for more time for xapian/omega in the
>> next year.
>> 
>>> I don't like discuss what is the better tool for some work.
>>> 
>>> On 8/30/06, *Reini Urban* <rurban at x-ray.at <mailto:rurban at x-ray.at>>
>>> wrote: Just a short, amusing note. Today I presented my xapian/omega
>>> project in my company, and a colleague of mine did the same project in
>>> the last month using lucene.net <http://lucene.net> and mediawiki. I use
>>> phpwiki as frontend.
>>> 
>>> Well, what should I say. Though Lucene.net <http://Lucene.net> has much
>>> better windows support, esp. pdf and outlook integration and also notify
>>> hooks to reindex automatically changed documents, my approach got the
>>> sanctus to be developed further. We found everything we looked for, in a
>>> very short time, with the best ranking ad hoc, compared to lucene, and
>>> the omega layout was much better.
>>> 
>>> Though our userbase is a closed community, only company internally, I 
>>> believe I may contribute the enhancements back to xapian.
> 
> 

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