[Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net

[Reini Urban]

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.