Azure Search: Lucene query syntax fully supported
Published date: 13 January, 2016
Azure Search has exposed the full Lucene query language to users of the service (in preview). Developed as part of Apache Lucene, the Lucene query language allows you to construct powerful queries.Specifically, this feature enables the following in Azure Search:
- Field-scoped search
- Term-boosting to customize ranking and relevance
- Regular expression search
- Fuzzy search
- Proximity search
- Blog post: Lucene query language in Azure Search
- Full documentation on MSDN: Lucene query syntax in Azure Search