Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
by fulmicoton on Saturday July 20, 2019 @08:31AM
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Tantivy main dev here. Thanks for the free marketing :)
It is not exactly a port but yeah. tantivy is strongly inspired from Lucene.
> Lucene has spent a ton of time getting the details right, and it's unlikely we'll see an order of magnitude of innovation in that particular space.
Have you checked out the perf gain in Lucene 8.0 ? Block-WAND proved you wrong.
Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
by bpicolo on Saturday July 20, 2019 @01:09PM
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I suppose I could have phrased that better. I appreciate the correction. I mostly mean to say that the functionality is really impressive today, and serves its use case very well for the intended target of lower level search primitives.
Tantivy is a cool project, but I have to say the part I love most about it is your blog posts on it. They're a great introduction for people who are unfamiliar with the underlying tech of search engines.
Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
by fulmicoton on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:19AM
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> Tantivy is a cool project, but I have to say the part I love most about it is your blog posts on it. They're a great introduction for people who are unfamiliar with the underlying tech of search engines.
Thanks a lot! I am not a native speaker, and I often feel very bad at conveying engineering concepts. The positive feedback is actually very helpful :)
https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy
That said - it's effectively Lucene rewritten in rust, so the main win is some performance gains. Lucene has spent a ton of time getting the details right, and it's unlikely we'll see an order of magnitude of innovation in that particular space. At the higher level for querying / query understanding it feels like there's still more technological room to grow vs the lower level details.