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<p>Lucene offers powerful features through a simple API:</p>
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<li>over 20MB/minute on Pentium M 1.5GHz<br /></li>
<li>small RAM requirements -- only 1MB heap</li>
<li>incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing</li>
<li>index size roughly 20-30% the size of text indexed</li>
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<li>ranked searching -- best results returned first</li>
<li>sorting by any field</li>
<li>many powerful query types: phrase queries, wildcard queries, proximity
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<li>fielded searching (e.g., title, author, contents)</li>
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<li>100%-pure Java</li>
<li>implementations in other programming languages available that are index-compatible</li>
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