Chapter 7. Finding information with NoSQL search

This chapter covers

  • Types of search
  • Strategies and methods for NoSQL search
  • Measuring search quality
  • NoSQL index architectures

What we find changes who we become.

Peter Morville

We’re all familiar with web search sites such as Google and Bing where we enter our search criteria and quickly get high-quality search results. Unfortunately, many of us are frustrated by the lack of high-quality search tools on our company intranets or within our database applications. NoSQL databases make it easier to integrate high-quality search directly into a database application by integrating the database with search frameworks and tools such as Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, and ElasticSearch.

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