The Lucene ecosystem has been around since the early 2000s.. it's old enough to vote if not drink.
Maybe eventually RDBMS systems will have full-text search out of the box that makes it unnecessary, but until they do, any predictions of death are certainly premature. (also, the lifecycle of indexed documents is different enough from transactional records that it's not as easy as it sounds).
Maybe eventually RDBMS systems will have full-text search out of the box that makes it unnecessary, but until they do, any predictions of death are certainly premature. (also, the lifecycle of indexed documents is different enough from transactional records that it's not as easy as it sounds).