Fuzzy Searching on Lucene / Solr

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Tobias
My first post so please be gentle with me. I am about to start 'playing' with Solr to see if it will be the correct tool for a new searchable database development. One of my requirements is the ability to do 'fuzzy' searches and I understand that the latest versions of Lucene / Solr use an improv

Re: Fuzzy Searching on Lucene / Solr

2013-08-14 Thread Jack Krupansky
The limit of 2 is hard-coded precisely because good performance for editing distances above 2 cannot be guaranteed. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Michael Tobias Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:00 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Fuzzy Searching on Lucene

RE: Fuzzy Searching on Lucene / Solr

2013-08-14 Thread Uwe Schindler
> -Original Message- > From: Jack Krupansky [mailto:j...@basetechnology.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:58 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Fuzzy Searching on Lucene / Solr > > The limit of 2 is hard-coded precisely because good perfor