We typically feed services like this from a cached text file, which is quite quick. Unless you need a lookup, redis would be overkill.
If you are communicating a lookup in an autocomplete process, I would like to see that in action. Cary On Jul 8, 2013, at 8:26 AM, "Terrell, Trey" <trey.terr...@oregonstate.edu> wrote: > jQuery UI comes with an autocomplete module that you can supply a source to > (the source just outputs JSON for records that match the given thing typed). > I've heard of using Redis, some cron-job-initiated indexing, and a fast > service layer to populate it quickly enough that you can't tell it's coming > from a request - of course, you'd have to have a redis server big enough to > store however many entries you have. If that level of speed isn't important > to you then the source can always come from a typical database. > > Trey > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary > Gordon > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 8:06 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lightweight Autocomplete Application > > I may be missing some subtlety here, but it sounds like you are looking for a > jQuery (Javascript) autocomplete script with an AJAX back end. This would > load the vocabulary in the background, typically starting at page load. > > This works fine as long as the vocabulary is of a reasonable size. If we are > talking tens of millions of entries, it is not going to work so well, and if > you have to look up terms in real time as you type, I don't know of any > client/server tool that will be fast enough. > > Thanks, > > Cary > > On Jul 8, 2013, at 7:37 AM, "Anderson, David (NIH/NLM) [E]" > <david.anders...@nih.gov> wrote: > >> I'm looking for a lightweight autocomplete application for data entry. >> Here's what I'd like to be able to do: >> >> >> * Import large controlled vocabularies into the app >> >> * Call up the app with a macro wherever I'm entering data >> >> * Begin typing in a term from the vocabulary, get a list of >> suggestions for terms >> >> * Select a term from the list and have it paste automatically into >> my data entry field >> >> Ideally it would load and suggest terms quickly. I've looked around, but >> nothing really stands out. Anyone using anything like this? >> >> Thanks, >> David >> >> >> -- >> David Anderson >> Systems Librarian >> Technical Services Division >> National Library of Medicine >> National Institutes of Health >> Email: david.anders...@nih.gov<mailto:david.anders...@nih.gov> >> Phone: 301-402-0033
