What is the difference between Lucene and Elasticsearch

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Satish Madiwal picture Satish Madiwal · Jan 6, 2015 · Viewed 48.6k times · Source

I know ElasticSearch is built upon Apache Lucene but I want to know the significant differences between the two.

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Vineeth Mohan picture Vineeth Mohan · Jan 6, 2015

Lucene is a Java library

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