Thank you Birger for the pointer to HBase. HBase sounds interesting. We will consider this for - "people you may know".
We are trying to address a different problem of searching from a well defined list of contacts. A huge ORed query sounds good at this point as a solution. Thanks and regards Rajan Chandi On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Lie, Birger <birger....@expert.no> wrote: > HI, > I might be unclear in what I mean. > > > Usually people have friends in common, so if you > 1) create and store a relationship between user x and y, and give that > an id. > 2) x knows z than there is a probability that y might know z as well. > > If that is the case than add z to the relation and you don't need update > documents. > > > The important thing is to create some sort of relationship concept so > you don't end up with N users and N relations... > In this is the case when you search than you only have 1 And clause > instead of 3. > > > I think Hadoop running HBase is ideal for this application. Facebook is > using HBase (I think) CouchDB is also excellent... > > > -Birger > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gwk [mailto:g...@eyefi.nl] > Sent: 2. september 2009 12:34 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: A very complex search problem. > > Hello Rajan, > > I might be mistaken, but isn't CouchDB or a similar map/reduce database > ideal for situations like this? > > Regards, > > gwk > > rajan chandi wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > We are dealing with a very complex problem of person specific search. > > > > We're building a social network where people will post stuff and other > users > > should be able to see the content only from their contacts. > > > > e.g. There are 10,000 users in the system and there are only 150 users > in my > > network. > > I should be search across only 150 users' content. > > > > Is there an easy way to approach this problem? > > > > We've come-up with different approaches:- > > > > > > - Storing the relationship in each document. > > - A huge ORed query with all the IDs of the people that needs to be > > searched. > > - Creating a query and filtering the results based on the list of > > contacts. > > > > None of these approach sounds to be plausible. > > > > We already have gone through recently released book on Solr 1.4 > Enterprise > > Search. The book also doesn't seem to have any pointers. > > > > Any good approach/pointers will help. > > > > Thanks and regards > > Rajan Chandi > > > > > >
