[opencms-dev] Reliability of Lucene

[M Butcher]

The Lucene search package (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene) is very 
stable, and is used in many enterprise-level search engines. Basically, 
it does the core search work for the module.

The main components of the module are stable, and I don't know of any 
existing issues. Some of the newer additions -- PDF indexing code, DOC 
indexing -- is probably not as thoroughly tested, but they are 
considered production-level.

Caching is left to OpenCms' FlexCache, so you may want to read the 
FlexCache documents to optimize the search results page.

Almost all of the bugs that have cropped up since the project began have 
been on the indexing side -- that is, I've heard of few issues that 
directly impact site visitors. I don't know if that gives you any peace 
of mind, but... I figured it was worth mentioning.

Matt

Dylan Milks wrote:
> I've seen many posts on this newsgroup regarding 
> bugs/problems/limitations of the Lucene search module. How many problems 
> exist with it as of today? Is it reliable enough to use on a 
> high-traffic corporate site? (I need some opinions on this matter)
>  
> Thanks,
> - Dylan
> 
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