couchdb-lucene ☆

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Description:
Full-text search of CouchDB documents using Lucene

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Nov 25, 2024

Links: Homepage | GitHub | formulae.brew.sh

Stars: 772 | Forks: 145 | Language: Java | Category: Databases

Tags: couchdb search lucene java database full-text

Install: brew install couchdb-lucene

About:
CouchDB-Lucene integrates Apache Lucene's full-text search engine with CouchDB, enabling powerful text indexing and querying capabilities directly on CouchDB documents. It operates as a separate HTTP service that communicates with CouchDB, allowing for complex searches, faceting, and highlighting within JSON documents. Its main value is adding robust, scalable search functionality to CouchDB's document-oriented database without requiring external search infrastructure.

Key Features:

Full-text indexing of CouchDB JSON documents
Advanced query syntax (Lucene query language) with faceting and highlighting
Runs as a standalone HTTP service for easy integration
Supports incremental indexing and real-time updates
Configurable analyzers and tokenizers for text processing

Use Cases:

Adding search functionality to CouchDB-backed web or mobile applications
Enabling complex text analytics and data discovery on document databases
Building content management or knowledge base systems with advanced search

Alternatives:

Elasticsearch – A standalone, distributed search engine often used alongside CouchDB via replication plugins, more feature-rich but heavier.
CouchDB's built-in Mango queries – Provides basic JSON querying but lacks full-text search capabilities like stemming or relevance scoring.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 25, 2024 3:34pm		2	VERSION_BUMP	b30938e0
Sep 15, 2024 1:51am		2	VERSION_BUMP	765c7b6a