On Nov 15, 2007 9:37 AM, Sam Smoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I'm the author of DataMapper (http://datamapper.org), and am > trying to choose what Full-Text-Indexing engine/plugin I want to > include by default. I was hoping you guys could help. :-) > > Sphinx comes highly recommended, but without live index updates, it > just doesn't seem practical for most of my work. > > I'm most experienced with Solr, but the whole HTTP::Request and > general complexity of it is off-putting.
For a different perspective: I'm in the middle of switching from Ferret to Solr. I like Ferret a lot, and still use it on several sites, but I had some problems with one large site: 1. the patches for large-index support are still in development; 2. each update to Ferret requires rebuilding the index; 3. Ferret doesn't yet support compressed indexes. My other reason for switching is that Rails' ActiveRecord is not well-suited to storing large documents, which made acts_as_ferret less compelling. I was nervous about tackling Solr, but I've found it quite easy to use, and the built-in caching and multithreading make it fast. I think Ferret is adequate for most search tasks, but if (like me) you're building a dedicated search engine, Solr is currently a stronger candidate. -Stuart Sierra _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
