Speaking purely from my personal thoughts ...
I have used numerous search engines over the past 12 years, some costing
six figures for a license.
There are some reasonable alternatives, but only for rare situations, IMHO:
o commercial - those needing one of the premium commercial search
engines to satisfy "special" requirements
o special-purpose - for unusual data sets or specific search methods
(e.g. concept based or natural language), where search algorithms can be
heavily customized to good effect
o using PHP extensions - difficult to deploy, but could reap the
advantages of PHP extensions written in C/C++
I have often been frustrated by the shortage of good, convenient, free
search engines for standard purposes with web applications. Now we have
Zend_Search_Lucene .. my favorite :)
Cheers,
Gavin
Matthew Ratzloff wrote:
Since the Lucene search is Zend_Search_Lucene and not Zend_Search
itself, I've been wondering if we'll see additional search
implementations after 1.0, and what those might be. Is Lucene
sufficient for most people, or are there other options out there that
people would like to see?
Just curious,
-Matt
p.s. I'm sending this to fw-general because it isn't about
Zend_Search_Lucene specifically.
