RE: Lucene and RDBMS.

2002-09-25 Thread Nader S. Henein
The initial motivation behind switching from intermedia to Lucene was a first step in achieving DB abstraction because if you rely on intermedia for your indexing and searching purposes you're pretty much stuck with Oracle, an excellent DB but if you're business is growing the licensing fees becom

Re: Comparing Intermedia and Lucene

2002-09-25 Thread Joshua O'Madadhain
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Peter Carlson wrote: > Can you share you code? We would love to add it to the contributions > area. I could, but I'd prefer to wait until I have had a chance to do some more testing on it. Right now it requires a fair amount of time and memory and it's not clear that the r

Re: Comparing Intermedia and Lucene

2002-09-25 Thread Peter Carlson
Can you share you code? We would love to add it to the contributions area. --Peter On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 11:39 AM, Joshua O'Madadhain wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Peter Carlson wrote: > >> I have used intermedia in the past and found that it had a few >> advantages and disadva

Re: Comparing Intermedia and Lucene

2002-09-25 Thread Joshua O'Madadhain
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Peter Carlson wrote: > I have used intermedia in the past and found that it had a few > advantages and disadvantages compared to Lucene. > > Advantages of Intermedia > 4) Supports term expansion and contraction > > Now items 3 and 4 of Intermedia advantages can be added as

Comparing Intermedia and Lucene

2002-09-25 Thread Peter Carlson
I have used intermedia in the past and found that it had a few advantages and disadvantages compared to Lucene. Advantages of Intermedia 1) Content in database so can be easily accessed and fielded out with many tools 2) Can combine text queries with SQL queries 3) Has richer support for theme

Re: Problems compiling the java source codes of lucene search engine

2002-09-25 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
I don't see any mention of using Ant, in your email, so I assume you're not using Ant to compile Lucene. The first place to look then is http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/. Read about it, download and install it, and then go to the directory where you unpacked Lucene and type: ant jar That will vrea

Re: Lucene and RDBMS.

2002-09-25 Thread Richard Belanger
I would also be interested in this. We have an interMedia engine running in production and have just built our first Lucene engine. So far Lucene seems to be comparable in speed - but I don't have enough data yet to give any feedback on the quality of the search results. By the way, we are acc

IndexWriter constructor

2002-09-25 Thread Mduduzi Gwala
Hi all I have been given an assignment to search a web application database using lucene. This is my first lucene exercise. The problem is according to the following IndexWriter constructor: /** Constructs an IndexWriter for the index in d. Text will be analyzed with a. If create is tru

Fw: [contrib]: XMLIndexer/StringFilter

2002-09-25 Thread Che Dong
> Hi All: > I pack the some source code I wrote before extend to lucene project. Hope it can be >added into sandbox and get more communications with other also interesting following >issues: including > > customize search result > sorting, search result filtering, > common xml indexing

AW: Lucene and Samba

2002-09-25 Thread Christian Schrader
As long as the Mainserver is the only one updating the data, everything should be fine, right? But I will take a look at the read-only index issue discussed earlier on this list. Chris -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Clemens Marschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: September 24, 20

Re: Lucene and RDBMS.

2002-09-25 Thread Mariusz Dziewierz
Nader S. Henein wrote: > We had to do the same thing, we moved from an Oracle Intermedia search to > Lucene (much better) the data is stored in the database. Could you give some reasons which lead you to conclusion that Lucene is much better than Oracle Intermedia in terms of searching data stor