Introduction blur. In today’s digital world, organizations are amassing petabytes of data, but struggling to index and search it using traditional database approaches – RDBMSs simply cannot scale to this level.
Apache Blur, addresses this problem. Blur is a search engine capable of querying massive amounts of structured data at incredible speeds. Blur combines the speed of document-oriented databases with the ability to build rich data models to deliver lightening-fast answers to complex queries. Apache Blur is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator. Lucene - Overview. Apache LuceneTM is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.
It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. Apache Lucene is an open source project available for free download.