Welcome to Apache Lucene

The Apache LuceneTM project develops open-source search software. The project releases a core search library, named LuceneTM core, as well as the SolrTM search server.

Lucene Core is a Java library providing powerful indexing and search features, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. The PyLucene sub project provides Python bindings for Lucene Core.

Latest Lucene Core News

Apache Lucene™ 8.6.1 available (13.Aug)

Apache Lucene™ 8.6.0 available (15.Jul)

Apache Lucene™ 8.5.2 available (26.May)

SolrTM is a high performance search server built using Lucene Core. Solr is highly scalable, providing fully fault tolerant distributed indexing, search and analytics. It exposes Lucene's features through easy to use JSON/HTTP interfaces or native clients for Java and other languages.

Latest Solr News

Apache Solr™ 8.6.1 available (13.Aug)

Apache Solr™ 8.6.0 available (15.Jul)

Apache Solr™ 8.5.2 available (26.May)


The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are defined by collaborative consensus based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache PyLucene, Apache Open Relevance Project and their respective logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other marks mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.