Compass

Compass is a powerful search engine mapping built on Lucene. It is designed for fast search and support mapping from data object to the search engine. Compass is not a traditional database, it is more fit to a search engine.

• https://github.com/kimchy/compass/blob/master/readme.txt

History

Shay Banon developed Compass at 2006 when he found there was not a good recipe management software and decided to develop one by himself, named iCook. He then extended to searching on a lot of domain models and created Compass.

• https://thedudeabides.com/articles/the_birth_of_compass

Website

http://www.compass-project.org/

Source Code

https://github.com/kimchy/compass

Tech Docs

http://www.compass-project.org/docs/2.2.0/reference/html/

Developer

Shay Banon

Country of Origin

GB

Start Year

2006

• http://thedudeabides.com/articles/the_birth_of_compass

End Year

2009

• https://github.com/kimchy/compass

Project Type

Open Source

Written in

Java

Supported languages

Java

Operating Systems

OS X

Licenses

Apache v2