Re: Followup: opinions on Search services
- From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>
- To: Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
- Cc: Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>, gnome-devel-list gnome org, Manuel Amador <rudd-o amautacorp com>
- Subject: Re: Followup: opinions on Search services
- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:26:11 -0400
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:27 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
[...]
> 2) Use of an SQL database is a far superior, faster and flexible
> solution to using a dedicated indexer like the lucerne engine (all other
> competing engines like spotlight use sql databases). This is one area
> search services has got right.
Last time I worked on search and full-text indexing [1], relational
databases were far from ideal, and the few vendors that had used
them in that way had reimplemented using something more suitable.
What has changed??
Liam
[1] http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/lq-text/
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