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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:00:42 -0500
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Subject: Re: Cassandra Full-Text Search?
From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
To: James Thornton <james@jamesthornton.com>
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Cassandra does not give you FTS or any secondary indexing out of the
box.  It's a pretty low-level API, but it will scale just fine if you
want to build a FTS index out of it -- this is what facebook's first
cassandra app was, and http://twitter.com/tjake is working on a
Cassandra back end for Lucene which will be more general-purpose.

There's links to some presentations facebook gave which cover their
inbox search data model at
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations.

-Jonathan

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:44 PM, James Thornton
<james@jamesthornton.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan -
>
> To what extent does Cassandra support full-text search? For some
> reason, I have not been able to find much on this. Has anyone
> integrated Lucene with it?
>
> Thanks
>
> James Thornton
>