Lucene is originaly written in Java, and it is quite fast. PHP implementation is not that fast.
Do a plain installation, if it's to slow and you have a lot of indentical queries try caching, if that is not enough go for Java & Solr implementation... iffy guy wrote: > > The reason I asked this is because i read on some articles that lucene is > a > very fast component capable of searching millions of records of data and > gigabytes of files in a matter of microsecs. IF that is the case, i was > wondering why a caching layer is necessary on the top of lucene. Is it > because file system access is slower than caching on a high traffic site? > What do you all think? > > On Jan 7, 2008 2:39 AM, Pieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Zend_Search_Lucene is a search engine build in PHP. And PHP isn't the >> fastest application. In my opinion, you should cache if you have a big >> search database (about 20MB) and if there are a lot of search queries. >> >> Regards, >> >> Pieter Kokx >> >> iffy guy schreef: >> > On a high perfrermance site while using lucene, do you think caching >> > lucene results will improve speed? Or lucene itself is faster than >> > cache and hence no need to cache lucene results? Has anyone tried >> > thiese two classes? what are your expereiences? >> > >> > thanks >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lucene-and-caching-tp14659067p19808620.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
