[Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net
Reini Urban
rurban at x-ray.at
Wed Aug 30 19:54:18 BST 2006
Rafael Jorge schrieb:
> Well, your message smell like a Troll (I hope that isn't), btw...
> This discussion fall in "my dad is better than your", I like Xapian, the
> Lucene for me is very "Java", and I don't like it, today I can write
> programs in too much languages with the same Search Backend.
>
> Good to you that Lucene is better for your case, but not for me, and
> anothers people.
You misunderstood that.
xapian was better for my company, so I can continue to improve my
patches and I'll have for more time for xapian/omega in the next year.
> I don't like discuss what is the better tool for some work.
>
> On 8/30/06, *Reini Urban* <rurban at x-ray.at <mailto:rurban at x-ray.at>> wrote:
> Just a short, amusing note.
> Today I presented my xapian/omega project in my company, and a
> colleague
> of mine did the same project in the last month using lucene.net
> <http://lucene.net> and
> mediawiki. I use phpwiki as frontend.
>
> Well, what should I say. Though Lucene.net <http://Lucene.net> has
> much better windows
> support, esp. pdf and outlook integration and also notify hooks to
> reindex automatically changed documents, my approach got the sanctus to
> be developed further.
> We found everything we looked for, in a very short time, with the best
> ranking ad hoc, compared to lucene, and the omega layout was much
> better.
>
> Though our userbase is a closed community, only company internally, I
> believe I may contribute the enhancements back to xapian.
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