Lucene in Action, Second Edition: Covers Apache Lucene 3.0

by Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, Otis Gospodnetic

When Lucene first hit the scene five years ago, it was nothing short ofamazing. By using this open-source, highly scalable, super-fast search engine,developers could integrate search into applications quickly and efficiently.A lot has changed since then-search has grown from a "nice-to-have" featureinto an indispensable part of most enterprise applications. Lucene now powerssearch in diverse companies including Akamai, Netflix, LinkedIn,Technorati, HotJobs, Epiphany, FedEx, Mayo Clinic, MIT, New ScientistMagazine, and many others.

Some things remain the same, though. Lucene still delivers high-performancesearch features in a disarmingly easy-to-use API. Due to its vibrant and diverseopen-source community of developers and users, Lucene is relentlessly improving,with evolutions to APIs, significant new features such as payloads, and ahuge increase (as much as 8x) in indexing speed with Lucene 2.3.

And with clear writing, reusable examples, and unmatched advice on bestpractices, Lucene in Action, Second Edition is still the definitive guide todeveloping with Lucene.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Technical, Computers, Software, Education, Reference

475 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sofie Giocante · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is #1 on my list of books I'd recommend to other programmers. I don't know how else to elaborate on how important I think the idaes in this book are.

[Christophe Addinquy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lucene is the masterpiece of open-source search. It's at the heart of every enterprise-level search engine such as ElasticSearch. There was also a second edition since this one. But at this time, this text did the job pretty well, covering all major aspects of Lucene. It' not an outstanding book either, but a classic "In Action" : the explanations are clear and most of the features are illustrated by examples, especially the case study of the last chapter. Overall, very decent.
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[Václav · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book is now (2009) outdated to the point of being useless. But it was a disappointed even before, there's precious little of useful information on how to use Lucene beyond the freely available chapters (that are, to be fair, quite useful, Lucene's API documentation being what it is). The 2nd edition coming out this year may be better.

[Lavanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Working in Search space, Lucene has been one of the open sourced fundamental search concepts we read in Information Retrieval space. More fancier engines embellish this engine, but if you want to go to the basics, this is a pretty solid book to sit and read.

[Sergey Toropenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

While it's a bit outdated in some parts, I still believe it serves as a good introduction.

[Sopan Shewale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lucene is search Framework - the cool idea. Eric has explained the framework and also explained the surrounding tools required to develop the application using Lucene or developing application in search domain very nicely.

This is one of my favorite book - i come back to read this book again and again.

[Trung Ngoc · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think the book would serve as a good start for those who want to learn Lucene from scratch. It contains clear examples and intuitive explanations for major definitions like k-means, fuzzy k-means. For those who have real interest in mining text, I suggest "Taming Text" as a good companion for the book

[Alex Ott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good, detailed book about Lucene, providing different levels of details - from quick start to detailed discussion of Lucene's internals, contrib modules and success stories.
Highly recommended for all, who are planning to use Lucene

[Stephen Voorhees · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great introduction to Search and Lucene.

[Dru Sellers]

good lucene introduction

[Jake Mannix · Rating 3 out of 5]

It would get 4 stars if we were in 2005. In 2009, it's a bit dated, and very introductory.

[Kyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good summary, wish it covered faceted searching, bitset logic.