Hibernate Search brings the power of full text search engines to the persistence domain model and Hibernate experience, through transparent configuration via annotations and a common API.

Full text search engines like Apache Lucene(tm) allow applications to execute free-text search queries. However, it becomes increasingly more difficult to index a more complex object domain model - keeping the index up to date, dealing with the mismatch between the index structure and the domain model, querying mismatches, and so on.

Hibernate Search help to tackle these problems and provides additional features such an easy to use Query DSL, JPA integration, advanced filtering, scalable clustering and monitoring features.