On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 23:35 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Cause its not just about indexing - We have metadata too and that really > needs a DB. If all you want is a google on your hard drive then yes a > dedicated indexer would be best but an RDBMS will give you expanidbility > and flebility in handling structured metadata with more powerful search > options.
Well, it gives you marketing hype for sure. It turns out that the text retrieval packages also store metadata. For that matter, an XML-native database such as Sleepycat's of the Apache stuff might be worth considering. Using a relational db for metadata and a native text retrieval format for postings can be very effective, as long as the integrity between the databases is managed. Liam -- 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
