I am using compass as well and it works fine. The indexing part is costly and you might need to do task queue if you reindex large amount of data. Starting the search manager is slow and it happens a lot due to the suspend policy.
You can also take a look at this project: http://code.google.com/p/gaelucene/ I hope there will be a native solution by GAE one day (is there an issue to vote for?) On Mar 16, 10:21 am, yjun hu <itswa...@gmail.com> wrote: > haha, up to now,i use compass okay! > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:53 AM, objectuser <kevin.k.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think there are a lot of posts here that conclude Compass is not > > viable. Has that changed? > > > On Mar 15, 12:23 am, yjun hu <itswa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > you can try compass to make you project searchable. a simple demo > > herehttp://hapeblog.appspot.com/blog.shtml?id=7002 > > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM, John Patterson <jdpatter...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Interesting to see the existence protected > > Query.setFullTextSearch(String) > > > > method when you open the Query class in Eclipse. I suppose it won't be > > too > > > > far away. I can't wait to see if they just give us a > > take-it-or-leave-it > > > > solution or also the tools required to roll your own. > > > > > On 14 Mar 2010, at 15:05, Robert Lancer wrote: > > > > > Haha, like many of us you probably thought that GOOGLE app engine > > > >> would have decent text search capabilities. > > > > >> It looks like your doing all you can do by creating the inverse table, > > > >> you may just want to star > > > >>http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=217 > > > > >> On Mar 13, 8:59 pm, niraj <njun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>> My case: > > > >>> I am building a website that has several searchable fields from > > > >>> various entities (example Artist names from artist entity , Album > > > >>> names from album entity). To have an efficient search capability I > > > >>> have defined another Entity - SearchType which carries the Searchable > > > >>> string and the Foreign key to the Entity. Instead of querying all the > > > >>> Entities one my one - I query SearchType. > > > > >>> My preliminary tests indicate that the query performance on > > > >>> SearchType is not great (the names are indexed) . I need google > > > >>> suggest like quick results in a drop down. What is the best way to > > > >>> design this. > > > > >>> I have considered Memcache , but I dont think I can run queries on > > > >>> Memcache . i.e I am running a startsWith() query on JDO today. > > > > >>> Any best practices . > > > > >> -- > > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > >> "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > > >> To post to this group, send email to > > > >> google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > >> google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2B > > > >> unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <google-appengine-java%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java > > %252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > >> . > > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2B > > > > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <google-appengine-java%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java > > %252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > dream or truth > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2B > > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > dream or truth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
