As far as I know, Sphinx only can only index tables that have a unique numeric id (e.g. and auto-incrementing int).... I looked at using it, but we use md5 hashes for the id/primary key on the tables I want to index... so we were out of luck. For what it's worth, I use Ferret 0.11.6 and love it. I re-index about ~90 million rows (and growing) worth of "stuff" (title, description, author, etc...) every night... works like a champ. Searching is fast (provided you don't want to sort on something other than relevance) and accurate.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:57 AM, arvind gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How bout Sphinx? > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Eric Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I would also be interested in Ferret alternatives for IR in ruby, a >> simple search on rubyforge returned mainly a bunch of projects that >> look to be abandoned... >> >> - Rise (does not appear to be actively developed) >> - rubylucene (looks to be a dead project) >> - Ruby Simple Indexer (also looks dead) >> - Ruby Odeum (simple ruby-bindings for a fast inverted index) >> >> If anyone knows of any ruby IR projects which are mature, and are >> being actively developed I would love to hear about them. >> >> Thanks -- Eric >> >> On Wednesday, August 27, at 10:29, Paul Lynch wrote: >> > I've been using Ferret in a project still under development, and it >> > works pretty well. As far as I can tell, the project is dying, if not >> > already dead. David Balmain is still the only listed developer, and >> > he seems to have moved on to other things. However, since the >> > software is still meeting my project's needs, I am not terribly >> > bothered by that. I suppose that eventually (in a few years?) >> > something will change enough that Ferret will stop working, and then >> > we'll have to find something else. >> > >> > If you can find an alternative that has active development, I would >> > recommend you go with that. (And if you find one, please post about >> > it.) But, if you can't, Ferret will probably be good enough for a >> > while. >> > >> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Fernando Parisotto >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Hi all, >> > > >> > > I'm new on the list, and glad to participate. >> > > I would like to make some questions about the ferret project... >> > > - Is the http://ferret.davebalmain.com/ official page of the >> project? (I'm >> > > always getting 502 Bad Gateway) >> > > - Where I can find the road map of the project? >> > > - In the http://rubyforge.org/projects/ferret/ I see the last >> realize was in >> > > November 28, 2007, that is true? >> > > - Is ferret discontinued? >> > > >> > > Please don't take this questions as offensive, I really like to know >> about >> > > how ferret is reliable for a long life product. >> > > Here on my company we are planning to make a big product with a >> indexing >> > > engine, I would like to know if the ferret is "alive". >> > > Thanks for the answers! >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Atenciosamente - Best regards, >> > > >> > > Fernando Luiz Parisotto >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Ferret-talk mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Paul Lynch >> > Aquilent, Inc. >> > National Library of Medicine (Contractor) >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Ferret-talk mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk >> >> -- >> schulte >> _______________________________________________ >> Ferret-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk >
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