Hi,

Having the search index stored on the normal file system gives us great performance and avoids having to tweak Lucene too much to suit our needs. However, the extra storage mechanism adds all sorts of consistency, backup and transaction complexities.

Especially with things like the data store it should be feasible to achieve good enough search performance even if the index is stored inside the repository either as normal (hidden/protected) JCR nodes or as special lower level constructs that still leverage our standard persistence mechanism.

What would we need to do to achieve this, and would the result be worth the effort?

BR,