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Apache Lucene Search Engine’s Features


Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is part of Apache Jakarta Project. Lucene was originally written by Doug Cutting in Java. While suitable for any application which requires full text indexing and searching capability, Lucene has been widely recognized for its utility in the implementation of Internet search engines and local, single-site searching. Lucene is Doug Cutting’s wife’s middle name !

Features

1. Scalable, High-Performance Indexing

  • Over 95GB/hour on modern hardware
  • Small RAM requirements — only 1MB heap
  • Incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing
  • Index size roughly 20-30% the size of text indexed


2. Powerful, Accurate and Efficient Search Algorithms

  • Ranked searching — best results returned first
  • Sorting by any field
  • Multiple-index searching with merged results
  • Allows simultaneous update and searching


3. Flexible Queries

  • Phrase queries –>  like “star wars” –> search for the full word star wars.
  • Wildcard queries  –> like star* or  sta?  –> search for a single character or multi character replacements for the search words
  • Fuzzy queries  –> like star~0.8  –> search for the similar words with some weightage
  • Proximity queries  –> like  ”star wars”~10 –> search for a “star” and “wars” within 10 words of each other in a document
  • Range queries  –>  like {star-stun}  –>  search for documents in between star and stun. Exclusive queries are denoted by curly brackets
  • Fielded searching   –>  fields like  title, author, contents
  • Date-range searching   –> like [2006-2007]  –>  search for documents with field value in between 2006 and 2007. Inclusive queries are denoted by square brackets
  • Boolean Operators  –>  like star AND wars . The OR operator is the default conjunction operator.
  • Boosting a Term –>  like star^4  wars –> make documents with term star more relevant
  • + Operator  –>  like +star wars –>  search for documents that must contain “star” and may contain “wars”
  • - Operator  –>  like star -wars –>  search for documents that contain “star” and not contains “wars”
  • Grouping –>  like (star AND wars) OR website –>  using parentheses to group clauses to form sub queries
  • Escape special character –>  The current list special characters are   + – && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ ” ~ * ? : \  . To escape these character use the \ before the character.


4. Cross-Platform Solution

  • Available as Open Source software under the Apache License which lets you use Lucene in both commercial and Open Source programs
  • 100%-pure Java
  • Implementations in other programming languages available that are index-compatible


At the core of Lucene's logical architecture is the idea of a document containing fields of text. This flexibility allows Lucene's API to be independent of the file format. Text from PDFs, HTML, Microsoft Word, and OpenDocument documents, as well as many others (except images), can all be indexed as long as their textual information can be extracted.
Index  --> sequence of documents ( Directory)
Document  -->  sequence of fields
Field  --> named sequence of terms
Term  --> a text string (e.g., a word)
Terms:
A search query is broken up into terms and operators. There are two types of terms: Single Terms and Phrases. A Single Term is a single word such as "test" or "hello". A Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such as "hello dolly". Multiple terms can be combined together with Boolean operators to form a more complex query.

Fields:
When performing a search you can either specify a field, or use the default field. You can search any field by typing the field name followed by a colon ":" and then the term you are looking for.

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