On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if you already saw that, but one of the goals for Oak is to > "Simple/Fast queries (i.e. through specialized indexes)" - see also > http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/Goals%20and%20non%20goals%20for%20Jackrab > bit%203 - what I understand under "specialized indexes" is user defined > indexes. At runtime, the query engine will pick the best (user defined) > index(es) for the given query (cost based). > > Currently, there is only one index type: traversing the nodes. A second > index type is the indexer mechanism that stores the index data in the > repository itself (this is already implemented and needs to be wired to > the query engine). A third index type is the Lucene fulltext index. The > query engine supports additional index types. > > And there might be additional index types. Implement a new index type > should be relatively easy. If you want to implement such an index type, > then this could be either within Oak itself, or outside of Oak. In any > case, the current plan (my plan) is to add an index service provider > interface. > >>the 'more out-of-the-box functionality' does not imply a full-text >>index is needed per se > > I believe we will need a out-of-the-box fulltext index as part of Oak. But > whether or not it is actually used is up to you, because indexes are user > defined.
Thanks for your feedback Thomas. One more quick question : Is it the idea to also store the Lucene fulltext index in the repository itself? Regards Ard > > Vocabulary: > > "index type": an index implementation, for example a property index > implementation that allows quick lookup for a property. Another example is > "traversing all nodes under a given path". Another implementation is a > "Lucene fulltext index". > > "index": one particular index instance, for example a property index for > the property "jcr:uuid" or the property "lastModified". > > Regards, > Thomas > > > -- Amsterdam - Oosteinde 11, 1017 WT Amsterdam Boston - 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142 US +1 877 414 4776 (toll free) Europe +31(0)20 522 4466 www.onehippo.com
