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<h1>Apache Lucene - Features</h1>
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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>
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<li>ranked searching -- best results returned first</li>
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<li>many powerful query types: phrase queries, wildcard queries, proximity
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queries, range queries and more</li>
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<li>fielded searching (e.g., title, author, contents)</li>
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<li>sorting by any field</li>
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<li>Available as Open Source software under the
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which lets you use Lucene in both commercial and Open Source programs</li>
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<li>100%-pure Java</li>
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