>From a legal/technical perspective, you can either embed Solr or you can use >it as a WebApp. I generally suggest that it be used as a separate WebApp, but >that depends. I would suggest the following criteria: 1. Fitness to use cases 2. Effort to develop/adapt 3. Ease of deployment 4. Effort to upgrade/maintain
Solr does "for free" some of the things (like index reopening/Searcher-pattern) that you would have to handle in your application if you used Lucene. Depending on how much time you have and how much control you need, that may be a good or a bad thing. You should be able to "try both" side-by-side in a few hours (the tutorials are pretty decent). -h ----- Original Message ---- From: Frank A <fsa...@gmail.com> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Mon, May 31, 2010 6:54:26 PM Subject: Re: Lucene Newbie Questions Thanks a bunch. Since I'm already inside a java based web application it would seem like both SOLR and Lucene would be plausible. I'm curious what other factors I should know about in determing if SOLR or Lucene is right for me. Can SOLR be used within a web application (as a library) or is it only a standalone app. Frank On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:33 PM, N Hira <nh...@cognocys.com> wrote: > Frank -- > > Lucene can definitely do this stuff. This review of the Query Syntax might > offer you some insight: > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html > > Specifically, you can look up "Fuzzy Searches" and "Synonyms". There are a > couple of key ways to handle synonyms, so you might want to prototype that > before you settle on the approach you ultimately select. > > Be aware that Lucene is more of a "search library". If you're looking for > a Web App. that can return XML or JSON, you might want to look into Solr, > which uses Lucene, but offers a lot of the architecture you might need: > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ > > > Good luck! > > -h > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Frank A <fsa...@gmail.com> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Mon, May 31, 2010 6:20:41 PM > Subject: Lucene Newbie Questions > > Hello all, > I'm considering Lucene for a specific application and am trying to ensure > that it is the right tool for what I'm trying to accomplish. > > At a high level I have a list of restaurants in a database and a list of > tags related to the restaurant (e.g. Italian, Formal, Expensive, etc). > Each > restaurant also has a location (longitude/latitude). > > My primary goal using Lucene is to conduct searches where the user can do > things like: > > - Misspell the name of the restaurant (by a few chars) > - Type "Italian Food" instead of just Italian or perhaps "Great Italian" > - Or even use some synonyms (e.g. Deli and Delicatessen) - of course I'd > define these terms. > > Are these types of use cases something that can be done with Lucene? Or is > there a more appropriate API that I haven't found? > > Thanks. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
