On 06/13/2010 04:58 PM, John Munroe wrote: > Does anyone know why Statusnet supports Sphinx rather than Solr? Is it > due to licensing or something more technical like performance? Don't > Sphinx and Solr have similar performances? > Well, is there any particular reason to support Solr rather than Sphinx? I'm not sure what options were looked at when we first set identi.ca up on Sphinx, but it's fairly fast and does the job.
I haven't yet done a next-generation search to see if anything else would be significantly better, but the only other search engine I've had much experience with is low-level Lucene, which at Wikipedia we wrapped into a customized search server & bulk indexer. For now about all I know about Solr is that it's also built around Lucene, and has various higher-level capabilities which I'm not familiar with in detail. (Solr didn't exist yet when Wikipedia adopted Lucene, and Sphinx was a brand-new upstart.) In the meantime, if you want to work on your own Solr-powered search plugin, do feel free! -- brion _______________________________________________ StatusNet-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
