Lucene 4 Cookbook

by Edwood Ng

Lucene 4 Cookbook is a practical guide that shows you how to build a scalable search engine for your application, from an internal documentation search to a wide-scale web implementation with millions of records. Starting with helping you to successfully install Apache Lucene, it will guide you through creating your first search application. Furthermore, the book walks you through analyzing your text and indexing your data to leverage the performance of your search application. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn to effectively search your indexes and successfully employ real-time searching.

The chapters start off with simple concepts and build up to complex solutions that should help you on your way to becoming a search engine expert.

388 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 26, 2015

Reviews

[Lloyd Rochester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great walk through Lucene with easy to understand theory

This book gives good background theory and had tons of useful examples broken down for many use cases. Edwood does a good job explaining how everything works and this is a great contribution to the Lucene community which lacks good documents. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to use Lucene. I also really enjoyed the overview of Elasticsearch. I've used Lucene before and wish I had read this beforehand. Today we're at Lucene 8 and this book is still very relevant.

[Mohamed Elsherif · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't finish the whole book, but it was good for the parts I needed when working with Lucene

[Smilexx · Rating 5 out of 5]

I seem more chapter but I didn't finish the whole book, but it was good for the parts I needed when working with Lucene