[Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net

[Reini Urban]

2006/8/31, Peter Karman <peter at peknet.com>:
> I posted this here some time ago:
>
> http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/manual/ch/ch17.html#id2564648

Connecting to dewey.library.nd.edu: Connection refused
http://www.library.nd.edu/ is ok.

I've used http://www.searchtools.com/guide/

> 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.

I've used those three in various companies plus htdig and namazu.
xapian has a good ranking, even with plain omindex, comparable to
google, which has a format advantage over omindex to handle a richer
format, html, to calculate the ranking.
Lucene is just too "weird" for me, personally.

"Oracle Ultra Search" is also in consideration at my company, but I
rather incrementally dump the db to txt than mess with our db
internals and updates.
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