Re: Using Lucene as compressed DB

2007-06-13 Thread Erick Erickson
Be very clear what you want Lucene to do. What your database schema is and whether the columns are indexable is totally irrelevant to your Lucene index. What is relevant is how you construct your lucene index to solve the underlying problem. Of course, the underlying problem may be reflected in yo

RE: Using Lucene as compressed DB

2007-06-13 Thread Ramana Jelda
Its not a trick. And this is what lucene meant for. Jelda > -Original Message- > From: Sammpathkumar, C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:36 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Using Lucene as compressed DB > > Hi, >

Using Lucene as compressed DB

2007-06-13 Thread Sammpathkumar, C
Hi, I am looking for a in memory Database which needs high speed search capability as well as should compress the data stored. Currently have only one table with two columns only in my design. Can we trick Lucene to use it for the above purpose? I am thinking something like: - Create a initial i