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by kordlessagain 1371 days ago
Lucene is fast, but probably can't handle analytical type questions on massive amounts of data as fast as a pure binary index can. I could be wrong about that though. I do know Solr has it because Lucene does...
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Elasticsearch (another household name) is built on Lucene too, so I wouldn’t count it out.