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From: Erik Hatcher <erik@ehatchersolutions.com>
Subject: Re: Can lucene do this?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:32:54 -0400
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org

Scott,

Have a look at the MemoryIndex (in contrib/memory) - it is perfect  
for this sort of thing.  You'd index each e-mail individually into a  
MemoryIndex and then run all the queries against it getting a hit or  
not.

	Erik


On May 11, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Scott Smith wrote:

> I'm building an application which has to provide "real-time" searching
> of emails as they come in.  I have a number of search strings that I
> need to apply against each email as it comes in and then do something
> with the email based on which search string(s) get a hit.
>
>
>
> My initial thought was to create a lucene index of the emails received
> in the last N seconds (where N is around 5 since I don't have to be
> quite real-time) in a memory directory, do my searches and then delete
> the index and create a new index for emails received in the next 5
> seconds.   I'm a little concerned because the number of search strings
> will probably grow over time and so there is a bit of a scalability
> issue-though I'm not sure there's anyway around that other than doing
> parallel processing on different machines.
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>
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience doing this kind of thing  
> and
> has additional or alternate suggestions??
>
>
>
> Scott
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