couchdb-lucene does not currently incorporate any of the geo- extensions, but it comes up enough that it's something I wanted to look into for 0.6.
Solr has lots of extra features over lucene but is, I think, quite hard to set up right. Finally, I would use the _changes feed to keep your external index synchronized and avoid the update_notification approach. B. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jan Prieser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > i'm trying to use solr in combination with couchdb and am thinking about > implementing my own external processes to query Solr and use > [update_notification] to index new documents. > > has anyone gone this way before? > > i already tried to use couchdb-lucene, but i need the distance functions > from solr to find locations and sort the results by distance from a given > point. > this isn't possible with couchdb-lucene alone, is it? > > thanks for sharing your insights. > > jan >
