This is outstanding new! I’m all for getting Search into ASF-land :) I agree that it is likely that we don’t want to add a JVM dependency for default installs, but we can work out the details.
Thank you! Best Jan -- > On 29 Jul 2015, at 18:26, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I am happy to announce that Cloudant open sourced the Search Stack > that is powering the Cloudant Search features. [1] > > It consists of two repositories, Dreyfus, written in Erlang and > Clouseau as a Scalang project that uses Lucene. > > Dreyfus is compatible with the new clustering features of CouchDB and > makes use of them. It establishes links between the VMs / nodes to get > the results from the shards before merging them as the final result > which is returned to the user. For details how it works under the hood > see this document [4] > > Are the two projects something the CouchDB community would be > interested in as part of the ASF, maybe as optional addon? > > Best, > Robert :) > > [1] https://cloudant.com/blog/open-sourcing-cloudant-search/ > [2] https://github.com/cloudant-labs/dreyfus > [3] https://github.com/cloudant-labs/clouseau > [4] https://github.com/cloudant-labs/dreyfus/blob/master/README.md -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: http://www.neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
