[Chicago-talk] search indexers

[Ed Summers]

On 1/20/06, JT Smith <jt at plainblack.com> wrote:
> so I've decided to roll my own using the MySQL FULLTEXT
> index feature. I've written an initial test case. It runs 9 times faster
> for imports than Plucene and 100 times faster for searches.

Just so you don't feel alone, the BBC [1] is building a 7 million
record index of its programs 1933-present ... and it's using MySQL's
fulltext indexing features as the backend.

//Ed

[1] http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000071.html