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lightweight document indexing to handle less than 250k potential records

Recently I’ve found myself chafing at the limitations of document indexing engines. I was developing a small website that needed some fairly robust searching capabilities but due to their hardware constraints I couldn’t deploy a Lucene-ish solution (such as Solr or ElasticSearch, like I normally would) to handle this need.

Real world analogy for a clustered index

A db index is analogous to a table of contents. This helps me understand db index in an easy way. My question is are tehre any real world analogies for a clustered index?