Lucene in Action

When Lucene first hit the scene five years ago, it was nothing short of amazing. By using this open-source, highly scalable, super-fast search engine, developers could integrate search into applications quickly and efficiently. A lot has changed since then-search has grown from a “nice-to-have” feature into an indispensable part of most enterprise applications. Lucene now powers search in diverse companies including Akamai, Netflix, LinkedIn, Technorati, Hot Jobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New Scientist Magazine, and many others.

Some things remain the same, though. Lucene still delivers high-performance search features in a disarmingly easy-to-use API. Due to its vibrant and diverse open-source community of developers and users, Lucene is relentlessly improving, with evolutions to APIs, significant new features such as payloads, and a huge increase (as much as 8x) in indexing speed with Lucene 2.3.

And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice on best practices, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide to developing with Lucene.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Meet Lucene

Part 1 Core Lucene

Chapter 2 Building a search index

Chapter 3 Adding search to your application

Chapter 4 Lucene’s analysis process

Chapter 5 Advanced search techniques

Chapter 6 Extending search

Part 2 Applied Lucene

Chapter 7 Extracting text with Tika

Chapter 8 Essential Lucene extensions

Chapter 9 Further Lucene extensions

Chapter 10 Using Lucene from other programming languages

Chapter 11 Lucene administration and performance tuning

Part 3 Case studies

Chapter 12 Case study 1: Krugle

Chapter 13 Case study 2: SIREn

Chapter 14 Case study 3: Linkedln

Appendix A Installing Lucene

Appendix B Lucene index format

Appendix C Lucene/contrib benchmark Appendix D Resources

About the Authors

Michael McCandless is a Lucene PMC member and committer with more than a decade of experience building search engines.

Erik Hatcher and Otis Gospodnetic are the authors of the first edition of Lucene in Action and long-time contributors to Lucene, Solr, Mahout, and other Lucene-based projects.