Hi all, First of all, many thanks for your reply, information you provide are really appreciated.
The student stage project is now formulated, we hope to find a student who likes space exploration to evaluate tracker in this new use case ;) Regards, olivier On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Adrien Bustany <abust...@gnome.org> wrote: >> Hi Ivan, >> >> Thank you for your answer. It sound that introspection in this >> direction is possible. >> >>> I am very curious on how tracker performs on such a big specific >>> dataset. It is not designed for that (our mind is on user data and >>> embedded devices) but can be an excellent test! >> What do you mean about the limitation of the size. In our use case >> each entry have a small size, for example an abstract of one >> publication. However, the whole database should store about ~50Gb of >> entries (for ~15 ontology). Except the case of the sqlite backend, >> does this could be an strong issue? > I don't know of anybody having tried tracker with such a big dataset... > Actually, the optimizations you make for embedded devices and for big > servers are not really the same :p > > Another solution would be to adapt libtracker-data to make tracker run on > top of postgres, but that's probably more work and I've no idea how it > would perform. I would suggest converting your dataset to turtle, importing > it in Tracker and testing a few queries... If it's too slow, I have been > using virtuoso in the past and we handled datasets of several hundreds of > GB without too much problems (you still need a decent machine to run it > on, and Tracker is *much* easier to use). > > Cheers > > Adrien > > PS. For big datasets, we had also evaluated Oracle 11g, but we dropped it > for some reason I forgot... Maybe because it was too expensive :p > >> >>> >>> good luck and feel free to post questions or write on IRC! >> Thank you, I will :) >> >> Regards, >> Olivier >> >> -- >> ------------------------------- >> olivier.gelux.ch >> _______________________________________________ >> tracker-list mailing list >> tracker-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list >> > > -- ------------------------------- olivier.gelux.ch _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
