A Prototype of Serverless Lucene
This work addresses the challenge of implementing efficient search architectures in serverless environments, though it is incremental as it builds on prior serverless search concepts.
The authors adapted Lucene, a widely-used open-source search library, to operate in a serverless cloud environment, resulting in a prototype that eliminates most custom code and enables interactive search.
This paper describes a working prototype that adapts Lucene, the world's most popular and most widely deployed open-source search library, to operate within a serverless environment in the cloud. Although the serverless search concept is not new, this work represents a substantial improvement over a previous implementation in eliminating most custom code and in enabling interactive search. While there remain limitations to the design, it nevertheless challenges conventional thinking about search architectures for particular operating points.