I guess Compass is probably the way to go - http://www.opensymphony.com/compass/
________________________________ From: Prasenjit Mukherjee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 2:45 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Distributed Lucene.. - clustering as a requirement Agreed, an inverted index cannot be efficiently maintained in a B-tree(hence RDBMS). But I think we can(or should) have the option of a B-tree based storage for unindexed fields, whereas for indexed fields we can use the existing lucene's architecture. prasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dmitry Goldenberg wrote: > >> For an enterprise-level application, Lucene appears too file-system and > > too byte-sequence-centric a technology. Just my opinion. The > Directory API is just too low-level. > > There are good reasons why Lucene is not built on top of a RDBMS. An > inverted index is not efficiently maintained in a B-Tree, and B-Trees > are the foundation of RDBMSes. > > http://www.haifa.ibm.com/Workshops/ir2005/papers/DougCutting-Haifa05.pdf > >> I'd be OK with an RDBMS-based Directory implementation I could take >> and use. But generally, I think the Lucene authors might like to >> take a step back and consider splitting off the repository and making >> it more extensible and high-level. Perhaps something like JSR-170 >> (Java repository API) may be a good route to go.... > > > If you have concrete ideas for an improvements to Lucene's Directory > interface, please propose them to the java-dev mailing list, ideally > as a patch. > > Cheers, > > Doug > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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