On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:27 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: [...] > 2) Use of an SQL database is a far superior, faster and flexible > solution to using a dedicated indexer like the lucerne engine (all other > competing engines like spotlight use sql databases). This is one area > search services has got right.
Last time I worked on search and full-text indexing [1], relational databases were far from ideal, and the few vendors that had used them in that way had reimplemented using something more suitable. What has changed?? Liam [1] http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/lq-text/ -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin Pictures from old books: http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/ IRC (chat) programs: www.ircreviews.org/clients/ _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
