[Chicago-talk] search indexers

[zrusilla@mac.com]

JT,

SWISH++ doesn't have Perl bindings,  but it can run as a search server. 
  Perhaps querying such a server might do the trick?

http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/

Liz



On Jan 19, 2006, at 5:30 PM, JT Smith wrote:

> What search indexing systems do you guys use?
>
> Here are my requirements:
>
>   - Must be easily installable on all platforms (which rules out stuff 
> like xapian).
>
>   - Must be open source on all platforms (which rules out stuff like 
> mnogo search).
>
>   - Must be able to index more than just web pages (rules out htdig)
>
>   - Must be able to index more than just databases (rules out 
> DBIx::FullTextSearch)
>
>   - Would like it to be able to store Meta Data (rules out MyConText)
>
>   - Is either pure perl or has perl bindings (rules out Lucene)
>
> The only thing I've found so far that matches is Plucene, the Perl 
> port of the Java
> based Lucene engine. I wrote a test to see how it would work out. The 
> API and
> functionality is exactly what I need, but it's very slow. After having 
> indexed 17,000
> documents, a search takes 2 seconds to return 20 results. And that's 
> on hardware that
> looks like:
>
> Dual Xeon 3.4 Ghz with hyperthreading
> 2 GB RAM
> SCSI Hard Disks
>
> So I'm not skimping on hardware.
>
> So my question to you is, have you used anything that would fit the 
> above criteria?
>
>
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