Hibernate Search in Action

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Chapter 1. State of the art

Figure 1.1. Searching by category at Amazon.com. Navigating across the departments and subdepartments helps the user to structure her desires and refine her search.

Figure 1.2. A detailed search screen exposes advanced and fine-grained functionalities to the user interface. This strategy doesn’t fit beginners very well.

Figure 1.3. Using one search box gives freedom of expression to users but introduces more complexity and work to the underlying search engine.

Figure 1.4. A typical index structure in a database. Row IDs can be quickly found by title column value, thanks to the structure.

Figure 1.5. The indexing process. Gather data, and convert it to text. From the text-only representation of the ...