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What is in a Lucene index? Adrien Grand, Software Engineer, Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch engineer and Lucene committer Adrien Grand explains the design decisions inside a Lucene index and what problems it can and cannot solve. The talk goes into how Lucene stores data for fast search and analytics.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an instructive, easy-to-follow look at Lucene internals from a core committer.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LuceneSolrRevolution
- Topic
- lucene internals
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2020
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From the original HN conversations
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I can super highly recommend talks by Adrien Grand on Lucene and Elasticsearch. They are super instructive yet easy to follow. [VIDEO] [LINK]
drej on Hacker News · 2020-01
In Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013)This is extremely high level. A nice view of how lucene internals work by core committer Adrien Grand: [LINK] [VIDEO]
ddorian43 on Hacker News · 2019-09
In Challenges in Implementing a Full-Text-Search EngineThis is excellent. I was recently reviewing Lucene concepts and found this video really good: [VIDEO] Also this site has a series of Lucene articles that are pretty nice. The one on Term Vectors in particular: [LINK] Based on some quick research it seems like …
stereosteve on Hacker News · 2020-06
In Reducing search indexing latency to one second
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