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<h3>Lucene offers powerful features through a simple API</h3>
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<li>over 200MB/hour on Pentium II/266<br /></li>
<li>incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing</li>
<li>small RAM requirements -- only 1MB heap</li>
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<li>incorporate new document types</li>
<li>localize for new languages (already handles most European languages)</li>
<li>develop new user interfaces</li>
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