On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Chris Lu <chris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Surely it's possible, but it has too much limitations to prevent a scalable > Luceen usage. However, it depends on your requirement. > > 1) You can not write index on disk, but you can read files. So theoretically > if the index is read-only and small, you can package it with the war file. I can probably write the whole index as Blob and read it and serve the index from RAM. This index can be loaded once in the start time and i can setup a cron task to see if it got updated > > 2) If you need to update the index, you will have to store the index with > Google's data store, just like store an index into databases. Sure it'll > work. But performance would suffer because of transferring the whole index > into memory, then really start searching. On the other hand, this could be a > good solution for small index with per-user data. as you said this is a solution if the index size is small
> > 3) For large changing indexes, you need to find other solutions to maintain > lucene index. > > My personal opinion is, finding a $20/month VPS hosting is far easier than > changing the way to code. The point is ,does Lucens use threads internally which the sandbox disallows > > -- > Chris Lu > ------------------------- > Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application > site: http://www.dbsight.net > demo: http://search.dbsight.com > Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: > http://wiki.dbsight.com/index.php?title=Create_Lucene_Database_Search_in_3_minutes > DBSight customer, a shopping comparison site, (anonymous per request) got > 2.6 Million Euro funding! > > > Noble Paul ??????? ?????? wrote: >> >> Is it possible to run Lucene in google app engine? has anyone tried it? >> >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- --Noble Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
