Comment by ashvardanian
19 hours ago
Lucene is tough to deal with. About 15 hours ago — right when this comment was posted — I was giving a talk at Databricks comparing the world’s most widely used search engines. I’ve never run into as many issues with any other similar tool as I did with Lucene. To be fair, it’s been around for ~26 years and has aged remarkably well... but it’s the last thing I’d choose today.
Interesting, then, that Vectroid would choose to fork it.
Elasticsearch is at least good / at hiding the Lucene zoo under the hood.
Can I ask you which alternatives exist at the layer Lucene occupies?
I went looking around last year and couldn’t really find many options, but I might have been looking in the wrong places.