Question

I need to search throw a text field in mysql from my java application. Should I use a search engine like Lucene? Ideally it should support sql syntax.
I need to search through the text field quickly (eg. select * from mytable where textField like ‘%searchfor%’ limit 100;)

secondly, if I need to wildcard search through all rows in the database, would using a search engine be much faster than performing like?
what should I use?

Answer 1

a search engine on top of db is much faster since it uses its own index for text search.