Michael Busch: Real Time search with Apache Lucene

Michael Busch works as Search Engineer at Twitter, where he currently focusses on realtime indexing and search. Prior to Twitter he worked for 5 years at IBM on Enterprise Search and eDiscovery solutions. Michael is Apache Lucene Committer and PMC member for several years. Here he worked on features like Payloads, reopen-able IndexReaders, multi-level posting skip lists and various other features and improvements. In his second life Michael is the Software Engineering Manager for the non-profit organization Literacy Bridge. (http://literacybridge.org)

Michael is going to give a talk on Real Time search with Apache Lucene: "Lucene has for a while already a nice feature that we call "Near-realtime search" (NRT). The approach works well for a lot of applications, but we're currently working on an even better real-time solution in Lucene: directly searching IndexWriter's RAM buffer while documents are being added! This will dramatically improve indexing performance compared to NRT, and the search latency (the time it takes for a document to become searchable) will shrink to a minimum - hence we will scratch the N in NRT!"