Hazelcast Lucene Directory Implementation

Purpose

• To create Hazelcast backed Lucene Directory implementation.
• Fast access to Lucene indexes using Hazelcast Technology.
• new integration module for Hazelcast Integration Team.
• Searchability constitutes a huge business segment and Hazelcast must be in this market with this implementation.
• Fast indexing time for big data sets

Technologies Used

• Hazelcast: Hazelcast Distributed Map to store Lucene Index files.
• Apache Lucene: Java full-text search library.

Sample Use Cases

• Lucene could be setup to use Hazelcast Directory Implementation.
• This module could be used together with Solr and ElasticSearch.
• Hazelcast Distributed Data Structures can be configured as full text searchable.

TODO

• Off-heap implementation for big index sizes.
• Searchable Distributed Map