Quoting Andrew Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I did a small demonstration application using lucene's range query and it > worked fine. > I didn't use a DB at all > > > "Mosul_Iraq.html", "E043.13535" > "Mosul_Iraq.html", "N36.33608" > > Having the directional (E, W, N, S) worked out well > > Andrew
The reason Lucene is called a search engine and not a database is because it is optimized for text-data or data which obey zipf's law. Sure, you can use Lucene on data that doesn't obey zipf's law, but there will be an linearly increasing (or is it exponential?) performance cost. As you add more ordinal data (especially floating point numbers) to Lucene, you increase the time taken for each and every single query. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
