> Thank you for your reply. > I'm just affraid of choosing wrong option for the project and later it would > be harder to change it.
I'm making the same kinds of decisions at the moment. My plan is to use an RDBMS to store the "master" copy of our data, because that technology is a ubiquitous skill set, and we know its capabilities almost instinctively. For example, we can hire a DBA off-the-shelf to deal with database replication without having to explain the details of our other systems to them, but doing the same thing with Lucene would require them to have experience with it. This way we can save our scarce brain-power for more interesting problems :) Rich
