Lucene 4 Cookbook

Chapter 1. Introducing Lucene

Many applications in the modern era often require the handling of large datasets. Managing and searching these large collections of information can be very challenging, hence the creation of efficient and high performance search applications has become a necessity. For decades, many data scientists' research focused on information retrieval. One can say that the open source community now bears the fruits of this hard work as many open source data management platforms are developed. The Apache Software Foundation's answer to this: The Apache Lucene has gained popularity recently and is considered the go-to text search framework by many.

Let us take a look at the recipes that we are going to cover in this chapter:

• Installing ...