On Oct 2, 2:41 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > > > 3) based on storage choice, how do I do free text search. I have read > > about > > ferret and sphynx. Do they require DBs? > > I think so, but honestly, you'll want a DB anyway for this project. > sphinx doesn't require a db- as long as documents have a unique numeric identifier you can feed sphinx and can also give it your data as suitably formatted xml. But yeah, I don't see why avoiding a db is a particularly good idea (although depending on the shape of your data a non relational database may be more appropriate than a relational one - from what has been said so far it doesn't look like this is one of those cases)
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