title: Lucene - is it the right answer for huge index?
body: <p>Is Lucene capable of indexing 500M text documents of 50K each?</p>
  
  <p>What performance can be expected such index, for single term search and for 10 terms search?</p>
  
  <p>Should I be worried and directly move to distributed index environment?</p>
  
  <p>Saar</p>