On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:02:31AM -0800, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> Here's my idea for keyword searches. I volunteer to implement it.
No.
> Each node keeps an index of the ksk's it has in it's data store. When it receives a
>Request.Search
> message with a keyword, it searches the local store for matching ksk's and sends
>back a Reply.Search
> message. It then forwards the search request to the next node on it's list of peers.
>When a
> Reply.Search message comes back, it removes the ksk's it already sent and forwards
>the message. If it
> has no peers it sends a Reply.Search message containing DONE. Once all it's peers
>have replied DONE
> or CONTINUE it replies with DONE to the requesting node. As each Reply.Search
>message arrives at the
> originating node the results get displayed real time. When the user wishes he/she
>can stop the search
> by sending a Request.Search containing ABORT. If an ABORT request is received it is
>forwarded to all
> peer nodes that were sent the search request and have not yet replied and no more
>peers are sent the
> request.
For this search to work every query has to hit every one (or at least a
considerable portion of) the nodes in the network. And since you are doing
one at a time it will be slow as fuck. And it doesn't scale for shit.
If it were that easy, you think we wouldn't have done it already?
> Each search would be faster and less taxing on the system than a mistyped data
>request or an insert.
Um, no. You have not understood how requests work.
> Clients could even use drastically reduced hops to live on search request messages
>to further reduce
> system load. This type of message is no worse than any other as far as cancer nodes
>sending out bad
> requests to load down the system. To further improve efficiency, searches could have
>their results
> cached in the datastore for a set time like 24 hours.
No, no, no.
>
> l8r
> Aaron
>
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