Difference between Lucene search and FTS-Alfresco

[wmay]

What are the main difference between the 2 search options to use the "Lucene" search of the "FTS-Alfresco" - what are the advantages or disadvantages between these 2 options to search. Is there a recommendation to use one or the other or is this only historical.

Is one of them "faster" then the other ?

Thank you for your comments.

[andy]

Hi

"alfresco" uses the lucene query parser with custom extensions.

"fts" uses our own parser (but the impl hooks into the same query parsers and extensions post parse)

So "alfresco" is a subset of "fts". The same queries and query fields are available.
The main difference is what needs to be escaped.
There should be little differnce in performance - only the parse phase is different.

There are extras with alfrecso fts - you cna force an indentifier match using = somewhat like google.

I will be covering this at DevCon in detail - the stuff will be available after.
The wiki page covers the additional features.

See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Full_Text_Search_Query_Syntax

There is a summary of why we moved and what we considered/included here http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Review_Of_Full_Text_Search_Query_Syntax

Andy