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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:58:46 +0100
From: Simon Metson <simonmetson@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Full text search - is it coming? If yes, approx when.
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Does http://blog.cloudant.com/developer-preview-cloudant-search-for-couchdb/ help wrt. the original post? Cloudant's search is built on Lucene.
Cheers
Simon

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On Tuesday, 29 March 2011 at 14:24, Dennis Geurts wrote:
Hi all,
> 
> Looking at the amount of replies wrt to this topic it seems there's much interest in full text searching.
> 
> It's really hard to tell how one would expect this feature to be implemented in couchdb in such a way that it would supersede the nice couchdb-lucene combo.
> 
> That said, if you want a _really simple_ (and probably bad solution performance wise!) fulltext search implementation, have a look at couchdb lists.
> 
> You decide which _view is sent to the _list function; within the _list function you can implement your full text search by inspecting the document data in javascript.
> 
> This setup at least allows for replication of the fts functionality and might be just enough for the OP.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers, dennis
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Zdravko Gligic" <zgligic@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2011 13:49
> Subject: Full text search - is it coming? If yes, approx when.
> To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
> 
> I have a bit tricky use case of super tagging or rather a somewhat
> hierarchical docs categorization. Several CouchDB gurus have suggested
> that I should look at Lucene and such. My problem is hosting because
> I would most rather go with a cloud solution such as Cloudant and
> forthcoming (I hope it's still forthcoming) CouchBase. Comparatively,
> I have very little amount of data - large number of tiny docs that are
> indexed every which way possible - such that the size of views dwarfs
> the size of docs.
> 
> The full-text-searching problem is best illustrated by the
> full-text-searching hosting state of affairs at Cloudant and CouchBase
> - the only two commercial companies worth mentioning within the
> CouchDb community. Neither one uses Lucene out of the box and only
> Cloudant has their own solution. This means that I could not use a
> redundancy-performance perfect Master-Master replication that is
> hosted by both. This is why either full-text-searching needs to
> become CouchDb's internal first citizen or our hosting friends need to
> internalize and make Lucene their first class citizen.
> 
> P.S. I love both but ...
> 

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