Lucene's great advantage is the full text search support. CouchDB doesn't have the idea of search except by key
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Myles Braithwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > CouchDB is human readable where Lucene is computer readable. > > Thats my best guess. > > Search though thousands of CouchDB records is CPU/Memory intensive where > using Lucene is less. > > --- > Myles Braithwaite > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mylesbraithwaite.com/ > > Please consider the trees before print this email. > > > On 24-Sep-08, at 7:47 AM, Ayende Rahien wrote: > > I am trying to understand the association between CouchDB and Lucene. I >> understand that Lucene can be used as the full text search engine for >> CouchDB. >> My question is more in terms of understanding the difference between them. >> Lucene itself is a document storage with many of the same semantics as >> CouchDB. >> CouchDB has views and replication, which Lucene doesn't have. >> >> Can anyone clear the difference between them? >> > >
