Hello,

Why do we not want to search using DFS?  Why is it not proper for
incremental indexing?

Thanks


Trey Spiva-3 wrote:
> 
> According to a hadoop tutorial  (http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/ 
> NutchHadoopTutorial) on wiki,
> 
> "you don't want to search using DFS, you want to search using local  
> filesystems.    Once the index has been created on the DFS you can  
> use the hadoop copyToLocal command to move it to the local file  
> system as such" ... "Understand that at this point we are not using  
> the DFS or MapReduce to do the searching, all of it is on a local  
> machine".
> 
> So my understanding is that hadoop is only good for batch index  
> building, and is not proper for incremental index building and  
> search. Is this true?
> 
> The reason I am asking is that when I read the article ACM article by  
> Mike Cafarella and Doug Cutting, to me it  sounded like the concern  
> was to make the index structures fit in the primary memory, not the  
> entire crawled database.  Did I miss understand the ACM article?
> 

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