KinoSearch is a loose port of the Java search engine library Apache Lucene, written in Perl and C. The archetypal application is website search, but it can be put to many different uses.

Features

• Extremely fast and scalable - can handle millions of documents
• Incremental indexing (addition/deletion of documents to/from an existing index).
• Full support for 12 Indo-European languages.
• Support for boolean operators AND, OR, and AND NOT; parenthetical groupings, and prepended +plus and -minus
• Algorithmic selection of relevant excerpts and highlighting of search terms within excerpts
• Highly customizable query and indexing APIs
• Phrase matching
• Stemming
• Stoplists