In this blog, we will cover packaged and DIY methods for Lucene based indexes on Cassandra; as well as, give some pros and cons for using Lucene Based Indexes on Cassandra. Also, the live webinar recording of Apache Cassandra Lunch #23 is embedded below in case you were not able to attend live. If you would like to attend Apache Cassandra Lunch live, it is hosted every Wednesday at 12 PM EST. Register at this link now!

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, even cross-platform. It offers a library of powerful features and we figured that it would be helpful to share our knowledge.