[tracker/sam/more-docs: 2/2] website/overview: Some Tracker 3 related updates
- From: Sam Thursfield <sthursfield src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
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- Subject: [tracker/sam/more-docs: 2/2] website/overview: Some Tracker 3 related updates
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:29:59 +0000 (UTC)
commit 478a9589848202600d4486d8224e0ed41d75a318
Author: Sam Thursfield <sam afuera me uk>
Date: Wed Oct 14 17:29:39 2020 +0200
website/overview: Some Tracker 3 related updates
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## What is Tracker?
-Tracker is an efficient search engine and
-[triplestore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplestore) for desktop, embedded
-and mobile.
+Tracker is an efficient search engine and distributed database
+for desktop, embedded and mobile.
It is a middleware component aimed at desktop application developers who
want their apps to browse and search user content. It's not designed to be
used directly by desktop users, but it provides a commandline tool named
-`tracker` for the adventurous.
+`tracker3` for the adventurous.
Tracker allows your application to instantly perform full-text searches across
all documents. This feature is used by the 'search' bar in GNOME Files, for
@@ -26,18 +25,16 @@ If you need to go beyond simple searches, you'll be happy to know that
Tracker is also a [linked data](http://linkeddata.org/) endpoint and it
understands [SPARQL](https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-sparql11-overview-20130321/).
-Apps can also store their own data in the Tracker database, but this feature
-isn't widely used yet. The [next major version of
-Tracker](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/-/milestones/1) aims to bring
-improvements in this regard.
+Apps can also store data in their own Tracker SPARQL database. If you want,
+this data can be published as a D-Bus service to enable distributed queries.
-There are several components that make up Tracker:
+Tracker 3 is divided into two subprojects:
- * **tracker-store**, which stores the index.
- * **tracker-miner-fs**, a daemon which crawls and monitors the filesystem to find content
- * **tracker-extract**, a suite of modules to extract metadata and content
- from many different types of file.
- * the **ontologies**, which define the database schema and the linked data vocabulary.
+ * [**Tracker SPARQL**](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker), a
+ lightweight database library built around SQLite.
+ * [**Tracker Miners**](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners/),
+ a set of daemons which crawl the filesystem and extract metadata from
+ many types of file to provide a system-wide search service.
## Who uses Tracker?
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