Thanks for the offer of help with Lucene, but I suspect I'll manage
on that front if I have to use it again. If memory serves it's a really
simple API. As for using the vendor specific text search options, they're
sort of a non-starter for me as I don't want to be tied to a particular
database architecture.
A couple of years ago, the last time I looked into this, I actually
found some guy who'd written a *virtual file system* just so he could store
his Lucene files in his RDBMS. Now that's using a nuke to solve a mouse size
problem ... plus it performed like dog meat :).
I'll let you know if I find anything useful though,
--- Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hensley, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:23 AM
> To: Tapestry users
> Subject: RE: [OT] FreeForm Text Search other than Lucene?
>
> We had this same problem. Went looking for a solution, and came back
> around
> to Lucene. I know this is not what you wanted to hear, but Lucene has the
> kind of search features that users expect, and that we would not find in
> other packages. I believe both Oracle and MySQL have some sort of text
> search capability, you might want to check them out. If you come back
> around
> to Lucene, let me know maybe I can help.
>
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:19 AM
> To: 'Tapestry users'
> Subject: [OT] FreeForm Text Search other than Lucene?
>
>
>
> Sorry for the OTness here, but I find this mailing list has
> more
> java knowledge in it than anywhere else I'm likely to look so .
>
>
>
> I'm considering adding freeform text search to a web
> application
> I'm working on. I've done the same thing before with other applications
> using Lucene, but that approach was, to be blunt, frail because I had to
> keep (and manage) two parallel data stores. There was Lucene's file
> based
> storage listing all the text and object keys, and there was my database
> that
> held the objects themselves. Keeping the two in synch through errors,
> transaction failures, backups, and recoveries was like pulling teeth and
> never *quite* worked right, resulting in the occasional "oh, just
> rebuild
> the whole lucene index" approach to fault recovery.
>
>
>
> What I'd really like is some form of vendor-neutral freeform
> text search that uses an RDBMS (not the file system) as its repository.
> Does
> anybody know of a java based solution that offers that kind of
> functionality?
>
>
>
> --- Pat
>
>
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