On 9/19/07, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:46:53 -0400 > Ryan McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stu is referring to Federated Search - where each index has some of the
It really should be Distributed Search I think (my mistake... I started out calling it Federated). I think Federated search is more about combining search results from different data sources. > > data and results are combined before they are returned. This is not yet > > supported out of the "box" > > Maybe this is related. How does this compare to the map-reduce functionality > in Nutch/Hadoop ? map-reduce is more for batch jobs. Nutch only uses map-reduce for parallel indexing, not searching. -Yonik
