Typesense's Relationship with Apache Lucene
TLDR Vasudev asked if Typesense is built on Apache Lucene. Kishore Nallan clarified that Typesense uses its own custom search engine.
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Vasudev
Vasudev
06:22 AMHi Kishore Nallan
quick question
is typesense build on top of Apache lucene ?
quick question
is typesense build on top of Apache lucene ?
Kishore Nallan
Kishore Nallan
06:38 AMNo it's not. We've written our own storage engine for search.
Vasudev
Vasudev
06:45 AMOkay great 👏
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