Hello Otis, GData and GBase to me sounds like they are short for Google Database. The goal with Ocean is to provide a Lucene based search database that provides out of the box functionality like the Google Data/Base offers. Unlike MapReduce, there are no infrastructure whitepapers on how GData/Base works so I had to make a broad comparison rather than a specific one. Realtime seems like a feature a search database should have to qualify as such and so GData is mentioned as the only known realtime solution (other than Twitter's Summize with I found out about later). The service Google provides through the GData protocol seems to also be referred to as GData, but could simply be called the "infrastructure supporting Google's realtime search web services".
Jason On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Here is one thing that's been confusing me. > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/OceanRealtimeSearch?highlight=(GData) > often mentions GData and relates it to real-time search (to Ocean), as if it > is GData that provides real-time search functionality. But isn't GData > simply a communication protocol (Atom with some custom additions by Google)? > If so, are statements like "Ocean addresses this by providing the same > functionality as GData open sourced for use in any project" really correct? > If GData is just a communication protocol, and Ocean is really primarily the > search engine that is capable of real-time search, then is it really correct > to compare Ocean with GData? My feeling is that the thinking is: > "When I access Google's databases using GData I can see my changes to those > databases immediately". > But that doesn't make GData this real-time thing, but rather the backend, no? > > > Please enlighten me if I'm misunderstanding what GData is. Thanks, > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
