It looks like the usage of Lucene 2.0 is already possible: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-352 (see provided patches).
I am quite curious if this is solving the problems Arthur is mentioning in this thread. ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p.
Arthur Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > these are the most important issues we have encountered so far: > > Increasing the number of nodes in the repository also has a big negative > effect on the performance of queries. > When we multiplied our content by four, our queries took about twice as > much time to execute. > Hopefully, Lucene 2.0 may have improvements here aswell. > > The item state cache is limited and can't be configured as far is I > know. > Since loading node items from the database is relatively expensive, > we would like to be able to cache as much as possible. > > Node.isNodeType() calls cause monitor contention in a concurrent > environment. > For example, if you use the getUUID() method on nodes a lot, this will > become a serious bottleneck. > "http-18080-Processor8" daemon prio=1 tid=0x08571740 nid=0x79ca waiting > for monitor entry [0xa97f1000..0xa97f2eb0] > at > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.nodetype.NodeTypeRegistry.getEffectiveNodeTyp > e(NodeTypeRegistry.java:384) > - waiting to lock <0xb38677c8> (a > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.nodetype.NodeTypeRegistry) > at > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.getEffectiveNodeType(NodeImpl.java:8 > 68) > at > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.isNodeType(NodeImpl.java:1245) > at > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.getUUID(NodeImpl.java:2802) > > Further, the parsing of nodetype names seems to be a bottleneck in the > isNodeType() implementation > at > org.apache.jackrabbit.name.NameFormat.parseIgnoreCache(NameFormat.java:2 > 52) > at > org.apache.jackrabbit.name.NameFormat.parse(NameFormat.java:80) > at > org.apache.jackrabbit.core.NodeImpl.isNodeType(NodeImpl.java:2552) > > Similar monitor contention issues occur in the CachingNamespaceResolver > class. > Using the util.concurrent classes could help solving these issues. > > Finally, we're also very interested in using jackrabbit in a clustered > environment. > > Arthur Meyer >