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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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Quarkus - Hibernate Search guide: The official guide for the Hibernate Search extension in Quarkus.

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.

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: 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.

Demo code: https://gitlab.com/peter-mueller/spring-hibernate-search-6-demo
Hibernate Search in Quarkus: A tutorial using Hibernate Search 6 and Quarkus.

Demo code: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-demos/tree/main/hibernate-search/hsearch-quarkus

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

Demo code:

A presentation of outbox-polling coordination in Hibernate Search 6.1+, with a demo using Quarkus.

A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 to Elasticsearch users.

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

A demonstration of how to use Hibernate Search in a Vue.js webapp with a REST backend using Quarkus 2.7.

A discussion of Hibernate Search 6 in Quarkus, how to use it and how it helps.

How to Keep Elasticsearch in Sync with Relational Databases?: 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: A presentation of Hibernate Search 6 and how it provides integration of Elasticsearch with a relational database.

Demo code: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-demos/tree/main/hibernate-search/hsearch-elasticsearch-wikipedia

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.

Demo code: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-demos/tree/main/hibernate-search/hsearch-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.