Third-party documentation, blog posts, talks and books about Hibernate Search, the most recent ones first.
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Official documentation
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Third-party documentation
- Quarkus - Hibernate Search - ORM + Elasticsearch
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The Quarkus guide to use Hibernate Search with Hibernate ORM and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
- Quarkus - Hibernate Search - Standalone + Elasticsearch
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The Quarkus guide to use Hibernate Search in Standalone mode with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
Blog posts
- Leveraging Hibernate Search capabilities in a Quarkus application without a database
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This is the second post in the quarkus.search.io series on using the Hibernate Search Standalone mapper to mass index data from a set of flat files without initially knowing the total number of entities and reading the files just once.
The quarkus.search.io application code: https://github.com/quarkusio/search.quarkus.io
- Indexing rollover with Quarkus and Hibernate Search
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This is the first post in the quarkus.search.io series on reindexing all search data without downtime when using Hibernate Search and an Elasticsearch backend.
The quarkus.search.io application code: https://github.com/quarkusio/search.quarkus.io
- Build a Spring Boot REST API with Full-Text Search using Hibernate Search
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A tutorial on how to quickly create a REST API based on Spring Boot and Hibernate Search 6, using the Apache Lucene backend.
Part 1 explains the basics. Demo code: https://github.com/Mozenn/spring-boot-hibernate-search
Part 2 adds pagination. Demo code: https://github.com/Mozenn/spring-boot-paginated-search
Alternate links: dev.to, medium.com.
- [German] Hibernate Search: Volltextsuche in Spring-Boot-Projekten
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A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 and its use in a Spring Boot application.
- RESTful Search with Spring and Hibernate Search 6
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A tutorial on how to quickly create a REST API based on Spring and Hibernate Search 6, using either the Apache Lucene backend or the Elasticsearch backend.
- Hibernate Search in Quarkus
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A tutorial using Hibernate Search 6 and Quarkus.
Talks and videos
- Quarkus Insights #171: Hibernate Search 7.1 & Vector Search
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A discussion and demonstration of vector search features in Hibernate Search 7.1 in the context of Quarkus.
Links to illustrations/slides: https://github.com/marko-bekhta/quarkus-insights-demo-hibernate-search-vectors#links
- [French] Hibernate Search 7: Nouveautés et cas pratiques de la recherche full-text et vectorielle Java
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A presentation of new features in Hibernate Search 6/7, including vector search.
- Quarkus Insights #154: Using Hibernate to improve search on Quarkus.io
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A real-world example of using Hibernate Search to index the Quarkus documentation.
Application code: https://github.com/quarkusio/search.quarkus.io
- Quarkus Insights #145: What’s new in Hibernate Search
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A discussion of new features in Hibernate Search 6.1/6.2 in the context of Quarkus.
Slides: https://yrodiere.github.io/presentation/2023-11-quarkus-insights-whats-new-hibernate-search/
Demo code:
- [French] Recherche plein-texte distribuée avec Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Search et Elasticsearch
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A presentation of outbox-polling coordination in Hibernate Search 6.1+, with a demo using Quarkus.
- [French] ElasticCC: Indexation au fil de l’eau de données relationnelles via Hibernate Search
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A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 to Elasticsearch users.
Alternate link (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgi9DmgYkuQ.
- [French] Retour d’expérience : Elasticsearch x Hibernate Search 6
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A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 and its use in a Quarkus application, focusing on Elasticsearch and custom bridges.
- Hibernate Search with Quarkus
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A demonstration of how to use Hibernate Search in a Vue.js webapp with a REST backend using Quarkus 2.7.
- Quarkus Insights #32: Hibernate Search
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A discussion of Hibernate Search 6 in Quarkus, how to use it and how it helps.
Resources for older versions
Hibernate Search 6.0 Alphas/Betas (slightly different API, but still relevant in 6.0+)
- How to Keep Elasticsearch in Sync with Relational Databases?
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A tutorial using Hibernate Search 6 and Quarkus.
Demo code: https://github.com/hakdogan/hibernate-search
- From table to index (and back) with Hibernate Search 6
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A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 and how it provides integration of Elasticsearch with a relational database.
Hibernate Search 5.x and below (completely different API)
- Full-Text Search with Hibernate Search and Spring Boot
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A tutorial using Hibernate Search 5 and Spring Boot.
- Add full-text search to your application with Hibernate Search
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A tutorial using Hibernate Search 5.
Part 1 explains the basics.
Part 2 deals with more complex analysis.
Part 3 deals with faceted search.
- From Hibernate to Elasticsearch in no time
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A presentation of the integration of Hibernate Search 5 with Elasticsearch.
- Hibernate Search in Action
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A slightly outdated book on Hibernate Search but a very good reference on the product and search engines in general. It was written by members of the Hibernate Search team at the time.
- JBoss-Developer wiki
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Old wiki hosted at JBoss.org. Mostly out-of-date content.
