For one of the applications I built, I did use Lucene for search as well as a fielded database.<br>
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For example, I had various categorized documents. Hence to list
documents in a category I used to fire a (fielded) search on lucene
rather than go to the DB.<br>
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I have also written an article on how Lucene can be used as a database: <a href="http://semanticvoid.com/blog/2006/06/06/using-lucene-as-a-database/">Using Lucene As A Database</a><br><br>
Anand Kishore<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nitin Borwankar</b> <<a href="mailto:nitin@borwankar.com">nitin@borwankar.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Given that text search engines have the ability to do fielded searches,<br>and given that a lot of web crawlers put data into mysql or relational<br>dbs for fielded searches,<br>couldn't a lot of crawled web content bypass the relational db and just
<br>use the text search engine as a high performance mostly-read fielded<br>database.<br>Especially people who do business intelligence based on crawled web data.<br><br>--<br>Nitin Borwankar<br><br><a href="http://walruscarpenter.wordpress.com">
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