we have parsers for these files. to index them, do the string representations need to be stored (aside from sitting in the index file)? or can the reader simply provide the string in order to record the location of the record in the binary file?
if i need to convert the binary file into text fields, the files will get VERY large. the binary data are well-formed events, so queries would be like "where ACCOUNT = 'Microsoft'" ./paul On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Anshum <ansh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Paul, > Lucene is a 'text only' saerch lib. i.e. as long as you feed in anything as > a string, you'd be able to use lucene else I don't think there's a way. > How do you even intend to search in those binary files? as in... what would > be the keyword/phrase? asking out of curiosity! > > -- > Anshum Gupta > Naukri Labs! > http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com > > The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The > distinction is yours to draw............ > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Paul Feuer <paul...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> I've looked on the FAQ, the Java Docs, and searched a little in >> google, but haven't been able to figure out if Lucene can index binary >> files. >> >> Our binary files can get up into the 20-30 gigabyte range. >> >> If it is possible, anyone have any pointers to what interfaces I should >> look at? >> >> Thanks, >> >> ./paul >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
