Does http://blog.cloudant.com/developer-preview-cloudant-search-for-couchdb/ help wrt. the original post? Cloudant's search is built on Lucene. Cheers Simon
Sent with Sparrow On Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 14:24, Dennis Geurts wrote: Hi all, > > Looking at the amount of replies wrt to this topic it seems there's much > interest in full text searching. > > It's really hard to tell how one would expect this feature to be implemented > in couchdb in such a way that it would supersede the nice couchdb-lucene > combo. > > That said, if you want a _really simple_ (and probably bad solution > performance wise!) fulltext search implementation, have a look at couchdb > lists. > > You decide which _view is sent to the _list function; within the _list > function you can implement your full text search by inspecting the document > data in javascript. > > This setup at least allows for replication of the fts functionality and might > be just enough for the OP. > > > > Cheers, dennis > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Zdravko Gligic" <zgli...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2011 13:49 > Subject: Full text search - is it coming? If yes, approx when. > To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org> > > I have a bit tricky use case of super tagging or rather a somewhat > hierarchical docs categorization. Several CouchDB gurus have suggested > that I should look at Lucene and such. My problem is hosting because > I would most rather go with a cloud solution such as Cloudant and > forthcoming (I hope it's still forthcoming) CouchBase. Comparatively, > I have very little amount of data - large number of tiny docs that are > indexed every which way possible - such that the size of views dwarfs > the size of docs. > > The full-text-searching problem is best illustrated by the > full-text-searching hosting state of affairs at Cloudant and CouchBase > - the only two commercial companies worth mentioning within the > CouchDb community. Neither one uses Lucene out of the box and only > Cloudant has their own solution. This means that I could not use a > redundancy-performance perfect Master-Master replication that is > hosted by both. This is why either full-text-searching needs to > become CouchDb's internal first citizen or our hosting friends need to > internalize and make Lucene their first class citizen. > > P.S. I love both but ... >
