Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr

2010-03-16 Thread Neil Chaudhuri
I am working on an application that currently hits a database containing millions of very large documents. I use Oracle Text Search at the moment, and things work fine. However, there is a request for faceting capability, and Solr seems like a technology I should look at. Suffice to say I am

Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr

2010-03-16 Thread Erick Erickson
Why do you think you'd hit OOM errors? How big is very large? I've indexed, as a single document, a 26 volume encyclopedia of civil war records.. Although as much as I like the technology, if I could get away without using two technologies, I would. Are you completely sure you can't get what

Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr

2010-03-16 Thread Glen Newton
I've also index a concatenation of 50k journal articles (making a single document of several hundred MB of text) and it did not give me an OOM. -glen On 16 March 2010 15:57, Erick Erickson erickerick...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you think you'd hit OOM errors? How big is very large? I've

Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr

2010-03-16 Thread Smiley, David W.
: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:58 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr Why do you think you'd hit OOM errors? How big is very large? I've indexed, as a single document, a 26 volume encyclopedia of civil war records.. Although as much as I

RE: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr

2010-03-16 Thread Neil Chaudhuri
? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Smiley, David W. [mailto:dsmi...@mitre.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:45 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr If you do stay with Oracle, please report back to the list how that went. In order to get

Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr

2010-03-16 Thread Lance Norskog
] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:58 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr Why do you think you'd hit OOM errors? How big is very large? I've indexed, as a single document, a 26 volume encyclopedia of civil war records.. Although as much as I

Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr

2010-03-16 Thread Erick Erickson
into the other options. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:58 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Moving From Oracle Text Search To Solr Why do you think you'd hit OOM errors? How big