Welcome to the
Lucene wiki! We use the wiki for brainstorming, maintainance of a FAQ, a free-for-all link database, and lots of miscellaneous snippets. Feel free to contribute. See HowToContribute for more details.
Overview
Lucene is a text search engine API. Specifically, Lucene is the guts of a search engine - the hard stuff. You write the easy stuff, the UI and the process of selecting and parsing your data files to pump them into the search engine, yourself.
You can find the Lucene project at:
http://lucene.apache.org/
Lucene is high-performance, scalable, full-featured, open-source, and written in Java.
Informational
BasicsOfPerformance -- Page bringing various other pages on performance under one roof.
ConceptsAndDefinitions -- Concepts and Definitions related to Lucene.
lucene status -- CHANGES.txt svn head LuceneFAQ -- The Lucene FAQ. Check here before asking on the list
GdataServer -- Gdata implementation using Lucene
HowTo -- Tips, tricks, and gotchas
InformationRetrieval -- Articles and Tutorials on Information Retrieval. Learn more about the theory behind Lucene
SearchQualityReports -- Reports on search quality experiments with Lucene.
LuceneImplementations -- Implementations of the Lucene index and search model in languages other than Java. Note that not all implementations are compatible with the Lucene Java
File Format Resources -- Books, Articles, Corpora... also see LuceneResources for projects that extend Lucene
SourceRepository -- How to get the sources
commits tracker -- Lucene commits tracker, has RSS feed
Community
CommunityContributions -- Code, modules, etc. available outside of Apache
HowToContribute -- We love patches, documentation, etc. Here's how to submit it.
LatestNews -- What's happening in the Lucene community
OnTheRoad -- Who's talking about Lucene and where?
PoweredBy -- Links to projects using Lucene
Support -- People and companies for hire.
Training -- Training courses
UseCases -- Want to share how you solved a particularly thorny issue in Lucene? Create a subpage under this one and write away
BestPractices -- Tips and techniques that can be regarded as best practices for Lucene.
MailingListArchives -- A list of archives of the Lucene Java (and probably others) mailing lists
Committers
LucenePlanning -- Whiteboard for future Lucene design
Miscellaneous
Archives -- Older Wiki documents
How to use this site
You may want to click on the Login link above and login if you haven't already.
During the editing of the Lucene wiki, please use the markup
:TODO:
to denote items you know need cleaned up later. This will stand out visually on the page like so:
:TODO:
... and :TODO: is easy to search for.
A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:
Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page
Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with quoted words in brackets
Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page
See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.
SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax