Mike McCandless writes:
Many users don’t appreciate the transactional semantics of Lucene’s APIs and how this can be useful in search applications. For starters, Lucene implements ACID properties:
If you have some very strong coffee and time to play with your experimental setup of Lucene, this is a post to get lost in.
When I read a post like this it sparks one idea and then another and pretty soon most of the afternoon is gone.