That should be fine. You just have to separately pull the added/updated rows from the DB and index them into your Lucene index. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Ievgen Krapyva wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've just started reading about Lucene and thinking whether I can use it > in my case. > My case is that the database content I want to provide the search > capability for is managed (new entries added / removed / edited) by > other application (written in PHP). > > Am I right in thinking that to get the best with Lucene I have to > regulary update indexes, i.e. make a full database indexing ? > > Thanks. >