Apache Lucene
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Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a standard foundation for production search applications.[2][3][4]
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Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
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Initial release | 1999; 25 years ago (1999) |
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Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Search and index |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | lucene |
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Lucene has been ported to other programming languages including Object Pascal, Perl, C#, C++, Python, Ruby and PHP.[5]