[Chicago-talk] search indexers

[Wiggins d'Anconia]

JT Smith wrote:
> What search indexing systems do you guys use?
> 

I can't speak to the speed of it on an index of that size since I don't
have one available, but you might check out Swish-e. I also don't know
about the cross platformness of it, but I believe it has the other
properties.

http://www.swish-e.org

It has a bit of configuration/learning curve but it is fairly
configurable. The search is C based, but there is a Perl API to it.

HTH,

http://danconia.org

> 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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