A quick solution for you would be to switch to Searchify (http:// www.searchify.com). Searchify has taken the open source code from Indextank and set up up a duplicate service. I have switched over one of my Indextank sites to their service and things have been working well so far. They mentioned in an email that they plan to keep the pricing within 10% of Indextank but that is not final. This will allow you to keep doing things the way you are now with no code re-writes (just change your secure URL).
If Searchify decides to shut down or is not as reliable as you like you can grab the Indextank source code and set up your own personal version on a VPS or whatever. The source code is here: https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-engine https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-service The official GAE Full Text Search is in trusted tester. Unless the pricing does not make sense I plan to switch my apps over to this when it is production ready. I am writing an Indextank compatible interface to it (that works both locally and over HTTP) so that I can switch over with minimal code changes. I am including a REST interface mostly because I have a few projects not on GAE that could benefit from awesome FTS. You can get a rough idea about how GAE FTS works from the slides here: http://www.gstatic.com/io/2011/presentations/full_text_search/ As Ernest mentioned you could also try ThriftDB. It is also in beta. I have used their service a bit to see how it is and so far things have gone well. The interface is similar enough to Indextank that you would probably find it an easy switch (depending on which features you need). I have not used it enough to vouch for its reliability. - Bryce On Feb 10, 8:13 am, Jon McMillan <mcmillan....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We're 3 weeks from launching our application and in ~8 weeks IndexTank > will no longer be accessible. I've been holding my breath waiting for > a new torch carrier for IndexTank or for App Engine to get full text > search. > > I've been a 1 man army on this project and App Engine taking most of > the server stuff off my shoulders has been a blessing. Can anyone > recommend a hosted search option that I can use to bridge the gap > between IndexTank and GAE? Am I best off launching Lucene/Solr on EC2 > myself? > > We're dealing with 20k Word documents. The text has already been > extracted and can be sent directly. The content doesn't change often > and search can lag for months. I don't need/want page crawling. > > Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.