On Jul 20, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Tim Brennan wrote:

Someone came into my office today and asked me about the project I am
trying to Lucene for -- "why aren't you just using a MySQL full-text
index to do that" -- after thinking about it for a few minutes, I
realized I don't have a great answer.

MySQL builds inverted indexes for (in theory) doing the same type of
lookup that lucene does. You'd maybe have to build some kind of a layer
on the front to mimic Lucene's analyzers, but that wouldn't be too
hard....


My only experience with MySQLfulltext is trivial test apps -- but the
MySQL world does have some significant advantages (its a known quantity
from an operations perspective, etc).....  Does anyone out there have
anything more concrete they can add?

--tim



I'd say that MySQL full text is much slower if you have a lot of data... that is one of the reasons we started using lucene (We had a mysql db to do the search), it's way faster!


--

Florian


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