Get the Lay of the Lucene Land

Adrien Grand

Distinguished Software Engineer I

Elastic

Despite being close to 20 years old (that’s almost 150 in dev years), the Lucene project keeps pushing limits. With origins rooted in full-text search, the scope of Lucene has expanded to drive improvements for Elasticsearch, most notably with doc values to make it a competitive engine to run analytics and multi-dimensional points to better handle structured data.

Hear the stories behind the latest features in Lucene 7, learn how they impact Elasticsearch, and see what to expect in Lucene 8.