4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache Lucene first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Lucene is properly 100% open source ... which continues to improve every release as well.”
endorse · production · jillesvangurp · 2020-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the open source Java libraries we leveraged along the way really helped us get going, things like HBase, Lucence, Bdb”
endorse · production · 2.5 yr · _grrr · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IIRC, when we moved to a highly-customized-Lucene-based system in 2011, we dropped the server count”
neutral · production · fizx · 2018-05-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At Creative Commons we use Lucene/Nutch for our educational search prototype DiscoverEd”
neutral · production · akozak · 2010-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?