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Lucene vs Carrot2: What are the differences?
Lucene: A high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Lucene Core, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities; Carrot2: An Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It organizes your search results into topics. With an instant overview of what's available, you will quickly find what you're looking for.
Lucene and Carrot2 can be categorized as "Search Engines" tools.
Some of the features offered by Lucene are:
- over 150GB/hour on modern hardware
- small RAM requirements -- only 1MB heap
- incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing
On the other hand, Carrot2 provides the following key features:
- Visualization
- Clustering
- Integration
Carrot2 is an open source tool with 377 GitHub stars and 155 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Carrot2's open source repository on GitHub.
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