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named Doug Cutting. There is a hosted Lucene service on Microsoft Windows Azure, which
means that Lucene can be utilized as a cloud service as well.
7.6.1 Lucene in Search Applications
Lucene is simple yet a powerful Java-based search library. It can be used in any application to
add search capability. Lucene is a scalable and high-performance library used to index and search
virtually any kind of text. Lucene library provides the core operations which are required by any
search application, such as indexing and searching.
If we have a web portal with a huge volume of data, then we will most probably require a
search engine in our portal to extract relevant information from the huge pool of data. Lucene ...