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Lucene offers powerful features through a simple API


Scalable, High-Performance Indexing
  • over 200MB/hour on Pentium II/266
  • incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing
  • small RAM requirements -- only 1MB heap
  • index size roughly 30% the size of text indexed


Powerful, Accurate and Efficient Search Algorithms
  • ranked searching -- best results returned first
  • boolean and phrase queries
  • fielded searching (e.g., title, author, contents)
  • date-range searching
  • multiple-index searching with merged results


Simple API's allow developers to ...
  • incorporate new document types
  • localize for new languages (already handles most European languages)
  • develop new user interfaces


Cross-Platform Solution
  • 100%-pure Java



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