Re: Hypothetical design question regarding keyword searching

2007-07-19 Thread Mark Papadakis
Greetings, Buy 'Building Scalable Web Sites' [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/pr/1582], authored by the chief architect of Flickr. Among other interesting topics, he describes the system they use for full-text search. Its pretty simple, though this is just one of the ways you can solve this problem

Re: Hypothetical design question regarding keyword searching

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Scott Haneda: I have been looking at stock photo sites lately, started wondering how they are doing their keyword searched. Given a potential for millions of images, each with x keywords, I have come up with two approaches... Is this the sort of thing you're looking for: htt

Hypothetical design question regarding keyword searching

2007-07-19 Thread Scott Haneda
I have been looking at stock photo sites lately, started wondering how they are doing their keyword searched. Given a potential for millions of images, each with x keywords, I have come up with two approaches... Approach one Images table, with a parent id Keywords table, each keyword would be its