Lucene 4 Cookbook

Chapter 3. Indexing Your Data

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Obtaining an IndexWriter
• Creating a StringField
• Creating a TextField
• Creating a numeric field
• Creating a DocValue field
• Transactional commits and index versioning
• Reusing field and document objects per thread
• Delving into field norms
• Changing similarity implementation used during indexing

Introduction

An index in a search engine can make or break an application. A well-tuned index with a well-thought out indexing process will not only reduce future maintenance cost, but will also reduce any potentially expensive application failures due to corruption in the data and/or a break down in the data processing pipeline. We will dive into the indexing process more in this chapter ...