DotLucene - The Fastest Open Source Fulltext Search Engine for .NET

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

.NET General

DotLucene is a powerful open-source search engine for .NET:

Very good performance
Ranked search results
Search query highlighting in results
Searches structured and unstructured data
Metadata searching (query by date, search custom fields...)
Index size approximately 30% of the indexed text
Can store also full indexed documents
Pure managed .NET in a single assembly
Very friendly licensing (Apache Software License 2.0)
Localizable (support for Brazilian, Czech, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Russian included in DotLucene National Language Support Pack)
Extensible (source code included)
DotLucene is a port of Jakarta Lucene to .NET (C#) maintained by George Aroush
Index is compatible with the Java version (Lucene)

5 Comments

Interestingly enough, DotLucene is the engine for the Enterprise Search feature of Community Server 2.0.

Alex Lowe - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 10:52:00 PM

alex not everything is bad in CS 2.0 ;-)

Paschal - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 10:58:00 PM

Thanks for the tip

Wallym - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:36:00 AM

It's went through three or four renamings since being ported to .NET but the final naming revision has been rock solid. I've been using one version or another of .NET Lucene for the better part of the last two years. Great stuff :)

Chad Humphries - Wednesday, March 8, 2006 2:19:00 PM

hi,

i am using lucene search engine it is crawling the text well but not the word and pdf files.is there any additional req fir this.

please reply me ASAP.

Aravind - Monday, March 27, 2006 3:46:00 AM

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