Hounder allows you to crawl the web, index documents and search them. It can be used to build a standard web search engine or to integrate into existing apps to index and search data.

Hounder is designed as a whole product, with the idea of bringing a complete search engine solution that runs out of the box. It includes an installation wizard (powered by wiz4j) and a webapp for monitoring & controlling all parts of the engine (powered by clusterfest).

Hounder is built in java based on Apache's Lucene. It can be run as standalone process, allowing for communication via different RPCs (xml-rpc, RMI, etc), integrating with applications written in any language.

Hounder was designed for performance, it can handle a great number of concurrent queries and can be distributed across several search and indexing servers to increase the number of indexed documents and query performance.

Documentation

Contributing

To join the project send an email to the project administrators or write to the hounder mailing list.

You can also send modifications as patches via e-mail.