Lucene: The Good PartsBefore MongoDB, before Cassandra, before “NoSQL”, there was Lucene. Did you know that Doug Cutting wrote the first versions of Lucene in 1999? To put things in context, this was around the time Google was more a research project than an actual trusted application. Google’s proof-of-concept search engine was still a sprawling set of desktop computers in Stanford’s research labs. I worked on my firs
