Using Lucene like a relational database

Question

I am just wondering if we could achieve some RDBMS capabilities in lucene.

Example: 1) I have 10,000 project documents (pdf files) which have to be indexed with thei

Answer 1

You can use Lucene that way;

Pros:

Full-text search is easy to implement, which is not the case in an RDBMS.

Cons:

Referential integrity: you get it for free in an RDBMS, but in Lucene, you must implement it yourself.