Building blocks for a website with good search and is very responsive

Question

I have a project in mind whose main selling point would be very good search results and very responsive (another Google for domain specific data). I'm not worried much about scaling at this point.

Whats the best ORM, Search and UI framework combinations can one choose and what are the pros and cons. I'm mainly a Java programmer but this one is worth learning any new language.

Answer 1

It would be worth looking at Hibernate with Hibernate Search, which uses Lucene under the covers for indexing.

The UI framework you use is somewhat orthogonal to this - while some frameworks do come with their own ORMs, you should be able to use Hibernate from just about any framework.

Answer 2

will use Django and Sphinx Search helped by Django-Sphinx