Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Interesting discussion on the Lucene User list about the Query Parser being badly broken.  One alternative is available here.  However, as anyone who follows the QP will tell you, there is no perfect solution available for the wide range of Query types that Lucene supports.  I think most users of more advanced apps will say [...]

Interesting interview with the creator of Ferret at http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/10/ruby-hacker-interview-dave-balmain.html Talks about some of the performance changes he has made in Ferret C version to make it run a lot faster than Java Lucene.  He says he doubts they can be ported to Java, but I wonder if the Java version might still benefit.