Ah, yes indeed. Sorry, about my mumbling today. To be a tiny bit more specific. I am of course only referring to the indexed product search. I know that Solr is based on Lucene and that both use a similar way of indexing new listed products (that is by adding, updating,removing new entities from/to the index through XML files).
>From as much as I understand, Lucene is the main search engine used within OFBiz (I hope we are NOT relying on cached Mysql-native Fulltext Queries here). New Products are added to or removed from the IndexTree through a xml script (just as they would in Solr). Lucene then provides the rest of the OFBiz environment with a regular search mechanism, as well as ranked indexing, sorting and yadayadayada. Lucene however, does not allow advanced Facetting, nor is it a standalone application. Both of these advantages are something that Solr provides. Therefore it would be great if one could easily switch both search engines... David E Jones wrote: > > > While this is an interesting discussion, I think you need to do more > research and be more specific before you can start a discussion. > > It sounds like you are talking specifically about the product > searching, but please be explicit about the type of data you'd like to > search. > > If it is about product searching then please do more research because > that does not use Lucene. > > Also, in what was is Lucene "proprietary" or in other words, how is > solr less proprietary than Lucene? Sorry, that commented just sounded > really funny. > > -David > > > On Sep 10, 2008, at 6:46 AM, madppiper wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I was curious whether it would be possible to replace the >> proprietary Lucene >> engine with solr ( http://apache.org/solr www.apache.org/solr ). The >> question I am asking is because that could increase the overall >> performance >> and also allow the fancy facetting. >> >> So in case it is possible (it should be: solr is based on lucene): >> how are >> products/catalogs added to lucene right now? is lucene running on a >> certain >> port? if so, would it be possible to simply switch ports? >> >> Cheers, >> Paul >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Replacing-Lucene-with-Solr-tp19412826p19412826.html >> Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Replacing-Lucene-with-Solr-tp19412826p19414154.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
