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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:11:40+00:00

I’ve been tasked with seeting up a search service on an eCommerce site. Currently,

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I’ve been tasked with seeting up a search service on an eCommerce site.
Currently, it uses full text indexing on sql server, which isn’t ideal, as it’s slow, and not all that flexible.

How would you suggest i approach changing this over to lucene?
By that, i mean, how would i initially load all the data into the indexes, and how would it be maintained? on my “insert product” methods, would i also have it insert it into the index?

any information is of great help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m currently using Solr, which is build on top of Lucene, as the search engine for one of my e-commerce projects. It works great.

    http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

    Also as far as keeping the products in sync between the DB and Solr, you can either build your own “sweeper” or implement the DataImportHandler in Solr.

    http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler

    We build our own sweeper that reads a DB view at some interval and checks to see if there are new products or any product data has been updated. It’s a brute force method and I wish I knew about the DataImportHandler before.

    Facets are also a really powerful part of Solr. I highly recommend using them.

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