[coleifer]

How silly to emphasize things like "built as a C extension" and "uses modern data-structures" as if these were useful criteria for choosing a search engine.

It's about minimizing the effort needed to find what you're looking for. Speed of index construction time, unless we're talking orders of magnitude, isn't really meaningful. I don't know if this is just a really clumsy attempt at "marketing" or what, but I can't imagine this is going to convince anyone to drop es for this thing.

[softwaredoug]

Also complaining that "Lucene is 20 years old" is about the same as saying "Linux is ~30 years old"

Lucene is a pretty rock-solid open source project that has been battle tested over those 20 years and had some of the best engineers in the world improve over a long time frame. That's an asset for Lucene!

[papito]

That's a testament to how hard search engines are. Armies of engineers spent years getting to this point. This project just started as a POC for Redis modules, but this is really forced and futile. Trying to do this is like attaching wings to a motorcycle - it's not how search works. This falls apart beyond a primitive word lookup, which you can do with any SQL database. And it has been done, MANY times.

[dominotw]

> Lucene is 20 years old

Damn I feel old. I remember when Lucene was hot new kid in the block.