[akka-user] Re: Can I use in-memory Actor state as a search engine ?

2016-04-01 Thread Guido Medina
If you want to have an actor per domain object handled by akka-sharding for read/write and after each write update the indexes affected by that object for an in-memory map reduce engine which again one exist per akka-shard node. That is...very do-able, you can save yourself sometime and use a ma

Re: [akka-user] Re: Can I use in-memory Actor state as a search engine ?

2016-03-31 Thread Konrad Malawski
+1 Ryan. I understood this is a hobby project, where it might be fun to challange yourself, but I wouldn't recommend reinventing search unless "reinventing search" is your entire business ;-) --  Cheers, Konrad 'ktoso’ Malawski Akka @ Lightbend On 31 March 2016 at 22:46:41, 'Ryan Tanner' via A

[akka-user] Re: Can I use in-memory Actor state as a search engine ?

2016-03-31 Thread 'Ryan Tanner' via Akka User List
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but I think there's a reason that products like Solr and Elasticsearch are complicated: search is hard! Getting it right at scale is *really tough*. Personally, I would gladly trade the operational complexity of ES/Solr over reimplementing them myself.