[ddorian43]

In elasticsearcch terms, vespa.ai, which claims better performance/scalability/maintanability uses c++ for lucene layer and java for the solr/elasticsearch layer.

There are blog posts speeding lucene by 2x+ by changing some stuff to c/c++. There are libraries (trinity) claiming 2x+ performance .

There is google-engineer saying "bigtable is 3x faster than hbase" that I've read.