On Nov 17, 2007 7:39 AM, Jens Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. Ferret doesn't yet support compressed indexes. > > At least from the docs it looks like it does, see > http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Index/FieldInfo.html . > I didn't ever try this out however.
Yes, it's in the API, but there's no code for it yet. > > 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. > > numbers, please :-) I make no claim that it's faster than Ferret, but it's fast enough. > Having that said, if my application's main concern would be search, I > most probably wouldn't choose any pre-cooked solution like aaf or Solr, > but build exactly the thing I need from scratch, basing it either on > Lucene or Ferret. But maybe that's just me ;-) I'd like to do that, but I lack sufficient time and skill. :) In the mean time, I'm hoping Solr will let me offer an open search API to my users without too much extra effort on my part. We'll see how it goes; I may end up back on Ferret at some point. -Stuart _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
