The Apache Lucene™ project develops open-source search software. The project releases a core search library, named Lucene™ core, as well as PyLucene, a Python binding for Lucene. Lucene Core is a Java library providing powerful indexing and search features, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. The PyLucene sub-project provides Python bindings for Lucene Core. The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. ...
Xapian is a Search Engine Library, written in C++ with bindings for Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# and Ruby. Xapian allows you to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to your applications. See www.xapian.org for more information.