Using the Apache Lucene library we can add freetext search to HBase. The advantages of this are: HBase is highly scalable and distributed HBase is realtime Lucene is a fast inverted index and will soon be realtime (see LUCENE-2312) Lucene offers many types of queries not currently available in HBase (eg, AND, OR, NOT, phrase, etc) It's easier to build scalable realtime systems on top of already ar
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