# Apache Lucene

Java full-text search library that applications embed to index documents and run searches over them.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/lucene/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://lucene.apache.org/
- repository: https://github.com/apache/lucene
- docs: https://lucene.apache.org/core/documentation.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: The Apache Software Foundation
- maintainerType: foundation
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2000
- hqCountry: US

### Kind

- category: search
- hosting: java
- language: java
- runtime: jvm
- runtimeMin: jvm 21
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: binary download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 10
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-04

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3598
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 314
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 16650
- dependentPackages: 1307

### Sources

- urls: https://lucene.apache.org/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/lucene (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://lucene.apache.org/core/documentation.html (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://lucene.apache.org/ (read 2026-10-28)
- hqCountry: https://www.apache.org/foundation/ (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://lucene.apache.org/core/10_5_2/changes/Changes.html (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://lucene.apache.org/core/10_5_2/index.html (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/lucene (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://lucene.apache.org/core/10_5_2/SYSTEM_REQUIREMENTS.html (read 2026-10-28)
- runtimeMin: https://lucene.apache.org/core/10_5_2/SYSTEM_REQUIREMENTS.html (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/lucene/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/lucene/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/lucene (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://lucene.apache.org/core/ (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/lucene (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/apache/lucene/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/repo1.maven.org/packages/org.apache.lucene%3Alucene-core (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/repo1.maven.org/packages/org.apache.lucene%3Alucene-core (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

Apache Lucene is a Java library that an application embeds to build a search index from its own documents and run queries against it. The project describes it as a code library and API that an application calls to add search, so the application builds the index and runs the queries itself. The [project homepage](https://lucene.apache.org/) names Lucene as the search core of Apache Solr, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, which are separate products.

Lucene ships as a binary archive whose jar holds the core library, and Maven Central publishes the same core artifact. PyLucene, a Python binding, is documented on its own page of the project site.

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