Hibernate Search

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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 guide

The official guide for the Hibernate Search extension in Quarkus.

Blog posts

Build a Spring Boot REST API with Full-Text Search using Hibernate Search

A tutorial on how to quickly create a REST API based on Spring Boot and Hibernate Search 6, using the Apache Lucene backend.

Alternate links: dev.to, medium.com.

[German] Hibernate Search: Volltextsuche in Spring-Boot-Projekten

A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 and its use in a Spring Boot application.

RESTful Search with Spring and Hibernate Search 6

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

A tutorial using Hibernate Search 6 and Quarkus.

Talks and videos

Quarkus Insights #154: Using Hibernate to improve search on Quarkus.io

A real-world example of using Hibernate Search to index the Quarkus documentation.

Quarkus Insights #145: What’s new in Hibernate Search

A discussion of new features in Hibernate Search 6.1/6.2 in the context of Quarkus.

Demo code:

[French] Recherche plein-texte distribuée avec Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Search et Elasticsearch

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

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

A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 and its use in a Quarkus application, focusing on Elasticsearch and custom bridges.

Hibernate Search with Quarkus

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

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?

A tutorial using Hibernate Search 6 and Quarkus.

From table to index (and back) with Hibernate Search 6

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

A tutorial using Hibernate Search 5 and Spring Boot.

Add full-text search to your application with Hibernate Search

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

A presentation of the integration of Hibernate Search 5 with Elasticsearch.

Hibernate Search in Action

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

Old wiki hosted at JBoss.org. Mostly out-of-date content.

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