Hello, I like Larbin, too, but that's a web crawler (apples, oranges, bananas) The demo doesn't seem to work. I'd be curious to see it when it becomes available.
Otis --- Leo Galambos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I like Lucene (THAT'S RIGHT!), but it doesn't offer me all features I > > want. That's why I decided to write another JAVA engine. If the > features > (see below) are interested for you, and you are a developer, that > would > like to help me with the new engine, PLEASE let me know (use my > private > mail, I DO NOT WANT TO START A FLAMEWAR HERE, LARBIN IS COOL. Howgh). > > Thank you. > > I would like to contribute to Lucene project, but I have chosen > different object model for the new engine... :-( > > Demo runs here: http://somis4.ais.dundee.ac.uk/sheeef/index.jsp (the > machine indexes *.ac.uk right now, so the speed may be slower if you > try > many concurrent queries). > > Features: > - extended Boolean model with p-metrics > - index compression via Golomb, Elias-Gamma, and block coding. Better > > than Lucene for more than 20-50%. Each inverted list is stored in the > > best coding method. The method is selected by "inverted list > metadata" > object - it is not hard-coded. > - highly configurable dynamization algorithm - it guarantees a good > response time for query(), insert(), delete() operations (without > degradation of index structure) > - universal stemming technique for almost any language (not used in > demo) > - on distributed architecture, insert() would not lock the index > - the engine would be able to simulate Harvest structure of Brokers > - ... > > Speed (indexing 2000 HTML documents, without stemming) > Larbin-latest: 1'17" > the engine: 1'22" > [RH73,IBMJDK131+JIT] > > Regards, > > Leo __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
