sorry gotta speak up on this. i indexed 300m docs today. I'm using an out of box jar.
yeah i have some special subclasses but if i thought any of this stuff was general enough to be useful to others i'd submit it. I'm just happy to have something scalable that i can customize to my peculiarities. so i think i fit in your 10% and im not stressing on either scalability or api. thanks, robert On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:36 AM, John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant: > I am sorry that I disagree with some points: > > 1) "I think it's a sign that Lucene is pretty stable." - While lucene is a > great project, especially with 2.x releases, great improvements are made, > but do we really have a clear picture on how lucene is being used and > deployed. While lucene works great running as a vanilla search library, when > pushed to limits, one needs to "hack" into lucene to make certain things > work. If 90% of the user base use it to build small indexes and using the > vanilla api, and the other 10% is really stressing both on the scalability > and api side and are running into issues, would you still say: "running well > for 90% of the users, therefore it is stable or extensible"? I think it is > unfair to the project itself to be measured by the vanilla use-case. I have > done couple of large deployments, e.g. >30 million documents indexed and > searched in realtime., and I really had to do some tweaking. > > -- Robert Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
