Is Lucene good for this?

[urillan]

We have web-searches against product names or company names (both
stored as keywords and stems) in our database. There are around
10,000 product names and maybe 100,000 company names.

We already have a search engine in place but are doing a rewrite, and
people mentioned Lucene.

Thanks for any comments or suggestions.

 

[bugbear]

We have web-searches against product names or company names (both
stored as keywords and stems) in our database. There are around
10,000 product names and maybe 100,000 company names.

We already have a search engine in place but are doing a rewrite, and
people mentioned Lucene.

Thanks for any comments or suggestions.

Generically speaking, those sound like modest requirements.

BugBear

 

[Daniel Pitts]

We have web-searches against product names or company names (both
stored as keywords and stems) in our database. There are around
10,000 product names and maybe 100,000 company names.

We already have a search engine in place but are doing a rewrite, and
people mentioned Lucene.

Thanks for any comments or suggestions.

Also check out Solr. It uses Lucene in the back end, but is presented as
a convenient web-service. Where I work uses it almost exclusively for
this sort of thing.