Lucene in Action, Second Edition

Chapter 9. Further Lucene extensions

This chapter covers

• Searching indexes remotely using RMI
• Chaining multiple filters into one
• Storing an index in Berkeley DB
• Sorting and filtering according to geographic distance

In the previous chapter we explored a number of commonly used extensions to Lucene. In this chapter we’ll round out that coverage by detailing some of the less popular yet still interesting and useful extensions.

ChainedFilter lets you logically chain multiple filters together into one Filter. The Berkeley DB package enables storing a Lucene index within a Berkeley database. There are two options for storing an index entirely in memory, which provide far faster search performance than RAMDirectory. We’ll show three alternative ...