Hi everyone, I'm just trying some stuff out to build a simple search engine for documents with lucene. Because this is a performance critic thing, I was comparing searching and indexing with Lucene 2.1 and 2.4 format. With a small Java reference-implementation the observed speed-difference was impressive. Time needed to build an index of 1.8Mio items: 18secs (2.4) or 30mins (2.1). Time needed to search the index wasn't that different. But the query with the new format still needed about half the time.
Since Zend_Search_Lucene only supports 2.2 lucene-format (which as I see is the same as 2.1), I would like to ask, whether support for the 2.4-format might come to ZF in the near future? Since I have no deeper understanding of the index-formats I cannot estimate anything... Or might it be more reasonable to write a search and indexing application in java and then make a php-wrapper for this application? Thanks for any insights or hints! Sincerely, Reto
