Apache Lucene Released
Doug Cutting released Apache Lucene, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.
Significance
Lucene provided the foundational indexing and searching capabilities upon which Solr would later be built, making sophisticated text search available as a reusable component.
Key facts
- Date
- 1999-10-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Virtually (developed by Doug Cutting)