Hi, the scores are relative to the contents of the index, so this won't be *that* easy.
However it is possible to have a distributed index in terms of multiple physical indexes on the same machine (this is done by having one IndexReader instance using several underlying IndexReader instances), with consistent scores. What's missing is the possiblity to access remote indexes this way (Lucene has this feature afair). Cheers, Jens On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:59:45AM -0400, Ian Connor wrote: > Hi, > > Are scores an absolute calculation or relative to what is in a given > index? I ask because I wanted to look into distributing my index over > a few servers. The idea being that I could get 10 results for a couple > of servers, do an in memory merge and return the results faster than > it would be possible with just the one index server. > > Would this work? Has anyone tried this type of ghetto map-reduce like > deployment with ferret? > > -- > Regards, > > Ian Connor > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > -- Jens Krämer webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH Schnorrstraße 76 | 01069 Dresden Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.webit.de Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 GF Sven Haubold _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
