On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:15:05AM -0700, Doug Cutting wrote: > Yukun Song wrote: > >As known, currently Lucene uses flat file to store information for > >indexing. > > > >Any people has idea or resources for combining database (Like MySQL or > >PostreSQL) and Lucene instead of current flat index file formats? > > A few folks have implemented an SQL-based Lucene Directory, but none has > yet been contributed to Lucene. Hopefully one will be soon. > > For some discussion of this, see messages on SQLDirectory in the mail > archives: > > http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SearchList?listId=&listName=lucene-user%40jakarta.apache.org&searchText=SQLDirectory&defaultField=subject&Search=Search > > Doug
Could anybody summarize what would be the technical pros/cons of a DB-based directory over the flat files? (What I see at the moment is that for some - significant? - perfomence penalty you'll get an index available over the network for multiple lucene engines -- if I'm right.) incze --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
