Which are the best alternatives to Lucene?

lucene search-engine
Rui Carneiro picture Rui Carneiro · Mar 2, 2009 · Viewed 28.9k times · Source

It may run on Unix and it will be used for email searching (Dovecot, Postfix and maildir).

Lucene is not a problem, I'm just analyzing some alternatives.

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vartec picture vartec · Mar 2, 2009

For simple things native full-text search of your RDBMS.

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