# Lucene search features in elastic search **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 9, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-search-features-in-elastic-search/4371 "2011-05-09T09:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loic/32/3235_2.png) [@Loic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loic)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-search-features-in-elastic-search/4371/1 "2011-05-09T09:08:10Z")
Hi, I've just discovered elastic search and it seems very nice. I used to use Lucene via Hibernate Search. I really like Lucene search capabilities , like approximation (Levenshtein distance) , phonetic search (Double Metaphone) or synonyms search. Are all the features avalaible when we use Elastic Search on top of Lucene? Thanks, Loic ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-search-features-in-elastic-search/4371/2 "2011-05-09T09:22:49Z")
Most of Lucene features are exposed in elasticsearch, hard to answer such a broad question. On Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Loic wrote: > Hi, > I've just discovered Elasticsearch and it seems very nice. > I used to use Lucene via Hibernate Search. I really like Lucene search > capabilities , like approximation (Levenshtein distance) , phonetic > search (Double Metaphone) or synonyms search. > > Are all the features avalaible when we use Elastic Search on top of > Lucene? > > Thanks, > > Loic ---
**Author:** ![Loic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loic/32/3235_2.png) [@Loic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loic)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-search-features-in-elastic-search/4371/3 "2011-05-09T09:49:42Z")
My question was mainly about approximation (like Levenshtein ), phonetic search and synonyms. Are all these featuresexposed in elasticsearch? Thanks, Loic On 9 mai, 11:22, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > Most of Lucene features are exposed in elasticsearch, hard to answer such a broad question. > > On Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Loic wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've just discovered Elasticsearch and it seems very nice. > > I used to use Lucene via Hibernate Search. I really like Lucene search > > capabilities , like approximation (Levenshtein distance) , phonetic > > search (Double Metaphone) or synonyms search. > > > Are all the features avalaible when we use Elastic Search on top of > > Lucene? > > > Thanks, > > > Loic ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-search-features-in-elastic-search/4371/4 "2011-05-09T09:53:16Z")
All except for synonyms, which are planned. On Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Loic wrote: > My question was mainly about approximation (like Levenshtein ), > phonetic > search and synonyms. > > Are all these featuresexposed in elasticsearch? > > Thanks, > > Loic > > On 9 mai, 11:22, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > > > Most of Lucene features are exposed in elasticsearch, hard to answer such a broad question. > > > > On Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Loic wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I've just discovered Elasticsearch and it seems very nice. > > > I used to use Lucene via Hibernate Search. I really like Lucene search > > > capabilities , like approximation (Levenshtein distance) , phonetic > > > search (Double Metaphone) or synonyms search. > > > > > Are all the features avalaible when we use Elastic Search on top of > > > Lucene? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Loic ---
**Author:** ![Loic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loic/32/3235_2.png) [@Loic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loic)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-search-features-in-elastic-search/4371/5 "2011-05-09T12:04:09Z")
Cool! Thanks for your answer On 9 mai, 11:53, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > All except for synonyms, which are planned. > > On Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Loic wrote: > > > My question was mainly about approximation (like Levenshtein ), > > phonetic > > search and synonyms. > > > Are all these featuresexposed in elasticsearch? > > > Thanks, > > > Loic > > > On 9 mai, 11:22, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > > > > > Most of Lucene features are exposed in elasticsearch, hard to answer such a broad question. > > > > On Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Loic wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've just discovered Elasticsearch and it seems very nice. > > > > I used to use Lucene via Hibernate Search. I really like Lucene search > > > > capabilities , like approximation (Levenshtein distance) , phonetic > > > > search (Double Metaphone) or synonyms search. > > > > > Are all the features avalaible when we use Elastic Search on top of > > > > Lucene? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Loic ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-search-features-in-elastic-search/4371/6 "2017-07-06T04:06:37Z")