[Rails] Re: scaling full text indexing(ferret vs solr vs hyperstraie

2009-03-08 Thread Marcelo Barbudas
> With Ferret you can scale reads horizontally: you can have multiple read > servers on a single index. You can only have one write server on a > single index or you'll risk data corruption. > > Another strategy is partitioning: having separate indices for buckets of > data. Each index could run o

[Rails] Re: scaling full text indexing(ferret vs solr vs hyperstraie

2009-03-08 Thread Roderick van Domburg
Marcelo Barbudas wrote: > Right now our project is running a simple setup with ferret and > acts_as_ferret. We are thinking about deploying a feature that would > send 50x more search requests. With Ferret you can scale reads horizontally: you can have multiple read servers on a single index. Yo