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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:48:51 +0100
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Subject: Re: Is Cassandra suitable for multi criteria search engine
From: David MARTIN <dmartin.pro@gmail.com>
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Hi,
That's what I was thinking. And I'm glad to read Apache solr in your
answer as it is one of my main leads.

David

2009/12/17, Tim Underwood <timunderwood@gmail.com>:
> It's not obvious to me how you'd do this in Cassandra but it sounds like a
> Apache Solr might be a good fit.  It lets you index documents with fields
> and then allows you to query the documents based on field values and/or
> ranges.
>
> -Tim
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM, David MARTIN <dmartin.pro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> That's a quite simple question : I have a big set of objects (around 3
>> millions) each containing several fields (> 20). Fields are just short
>> strings, other can be larger strings (several hundreds characters, not so
>> huge so), integers, ...
>>
>> I'd like to be able to look for objects based on one or more fields value
>> or range.
>>
>> Is Cassandra as a nosql solution suitable for this kind of need or do I
>> have to stay stuck to a database (using a denormalized approach) ?
>>
>> If Cassandra is suitable, what kind of data structure(s) do I need to
>> adopt
>> ?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> David
>>
>