On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Jim Spath wrote:
What about Xapian?
I noticed that it has some Catalyst support in the form of
Catalyst::Model::Xapian.
Xapian also seems like a possible long term solution as it can
handle more documents that Swish-e or KinoSeach.
I've done some Catalyst and Xapian work. There is a lot to like
about Xapian:
1. It's quite fast
2. It has a fairly sane API
3. It scales for a long time
4. It's pretty easy to write your own query parser, if you need to.
Things I don't like:
1. Perl integration is all XS, and the documentation is lacking.
It's not such a big deal, because you can just use the C++
documentation.. but you have to do the translating yourself.
2. Updates to a Xapian index need to happen in a single thread. This
sucks if you need to build/rebuild the corpus often, or insert
millions of documents at a go.
Adam
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