On 3/24/08, reto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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!
Not sure if this is of any help since I haven't tried it myself, but I read this post the other day: http://www.ibuildings.nl/blog/archives/701-Implementing-Sphinx-search.html Sincerely, > > Reto > -- Vincent
