Best search engine to use in a ebay-like system (.NET)

Question

Hello guys... I´m developing a ebay-like system in .NET/C# ... Is Lucene a good option to a system like that? Or maybe a simpler solution ? The performance is the most important thing to that...

EDIT I´ll use a Full-Text Sql Search (Is it the best option?)

Any ideas, suggestions?

Paul

Answer 1

I don't know a thing about Lucene but how about custom Google search?

Answer 2

I would definitely go for Lucene.Net as you mention yourself. My experience is, that Lucene.Net has excellent performance, compared to proprietary search servers that I have had experience with.

Alternatively you can run the Java version Lucene or Solr on you server and query it.

Answer 3

It you're just searching on SQL data, I would just use a full-text SQL query. Lucene, Google search and Microsoft indexing service are great options for searching on files, should you need to go that route.