> perform such a cull again, you might make several
> distinct indexes (one per
> day, per week, per whatever) during that reindexing
> so the next time will be
> much easier.
How would you search and consolidate the results
across multiple indexes? Hits from each index will
have independent sc
Thanks for the nice summary.
Couple of other things that comes to my mind are:
1. Not columns are indexed in a database; searching on
a non-indexed field would be very expensive.
2. Some dbs do support free form indexes but it is an
offline index. Good thing is that regular sql can be
used to tak
How does sorting and ranking working together in
Lucene? Are they mutually exclusive? If the search
result is ranked first, then sorting may not have much
value. If sorting is done first, then ranking doesnt
have any meaning?
thanks!
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In general, will index size be equal to the size of
the document? Also, does Lucene employ any index
compression schemes? I am a relatively new user of
Lucene and I just love it!
thanks!
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