Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
Firstly thanks folks for Xindice; it seems to provide a load of functionality that we're looking for.
Secondly: has there been any thought about supporting replication between xindice servers? If not then it's something we'd be interested in working on.
No, there is no replication now. How do you want to approach it?
Slowly :)
Before doing anything else we need to alter our product to use Xindice - at the moment it's just storing documents on the filesystem. Once that's done I'll be thinking about the best ways to:
* build full text indexes of the documents in a collection * replicate between Xindice servers
We currently solve the full text problem by loading our whole document tree into memory at startup and building an index at that time. We then periodically scan the filesystem for updated documents and reload/reindex them accordingly so we need to be able to replace that mechanism without merely loading all the documents from Xindice at startup.
The replication mechanism I'm most familiar with is the one Lotus Domino uses. The main problem if you're doing peer to peer replication is how to resolve update conflicts and I suspect that the 'right' solution depends to a significant extent on the application so my feeling is that that's the area that needs the most consideration.
The full text indexing thing actually takes precedence at the moment. I'll be having a look at that next week if anyone has any bright ideas :)
-- Andy Armstrong, Tagish
