By Cesar Aguirre
I bet you have used the SQL LIKE operator to find a keyword in a text field. For large amounts of text, that would be slow. Let’s learn how to implement a full-text search with Lucene and NCache.
Full-text search is a technique to search not only exact matches of a keyword in some text but for patterns of text, synonyms, or close words in large amounts of text.
To support large amounts of text, searching is divided into two phases: indexing and searching. In the indexing phase, an analyzer processes text to create indexes based on the rules of a spoken language like English to remove stop words and record synonyms and inflections of words. Then, the searching phase only uses the indexes instead of the original text source.
Read full ArticleFrom its official page, “Apache Lucene.NET is a high performance search library for .NET.” It’s a C# port of Java-based Apache Lucene, an “extremely powerful” and fast search library optimized for full-text search.
NCache gives distributed capabilities to Lucene by implementing the Lucene API on top of its In-Memory Distributed cache. This way, NCache makes Lucene a linearly scalable full-text searching solution for .NET. For more features of Distributed Lucene, check NCache Distributed Lucene page.
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