Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 76893 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2002 21:07:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 21 Sep 2002 21:07:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 11819 invoked by uid 97); 21 Sep 2002 21:07:58 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 11789 invoked by uid 97); 21 Sep 2002 21:07:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Lucene Users List" Reply-To: "Lucene Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 11766 invoked by uid 98); 21 Sep 2002 21:07:56 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) Message-ID: <3D8CE01C.7010306@lucene.com> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:09:48 -0700 From: Doug Cutting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Is Lucene suitable for one-time index and one-time search ? References: <00a801c2616c$5c2424b0$0964a8c0@nethi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Mailing Lists Account wrote: > I need to search a bunch of documents.Each document needs to be searched > only once. That means once I build the index and search it, I have no need > for that index and the document again. This does not sound like the problem that Lucene is designed to solve. Lucene can solve it, but not in a very efficient manner. Will you use the same query repeatedly on different sets of documents? If so, then it sounds like you might be doing categorization. An efficient way to do this is to build an index of queries and then search it with each new document (instead of searching documents with queries). You might be able to get Lucene to work in that manner, but it is not ideally suited. Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: