On Oct 10, 6:05 am, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9 Okt, 22:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...tell us how the [ http://nucular.sourceforge.net ] > software compares to stuff like Lucene or Xapian...
I wish I could, honestly. I've looked briefly into trying to put together some sort of comparisons, but I find the documentation for both the systems mentioned quite forbidding. I certainly don't want to spend as much time developing comparisons with other projects as I did developing nucular :). For the moment I will make the completely unbiased suggestion that nucular indices may be a lot easier to set up and use than either Lucene or Xapian, particularly from a Python programming perspective. It's also not immediately clear to me whether Xapian and Lucene support completely unrestricted numbers and combinations of fields, but I'm not sure. I'll see if I can come up with something better than that... As a side note, if you do benchmarks, please don't use the Lucene benchmark query taken from http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/benchmarks.html namely, Query: +Domain:sos +(+((Name:goo*^2.0 Name:plan*^2.0) (Teaser:goo* Tea ser:plan*) (Details:goo* Details:plan*)) -Cancel:y) +DisplayStartDate: [mkwsw2jk0 -mq3dj1uq0] +EndDate:[mq3dj1uq0-ntlxuggw0] Because I expect nucular will perform very poorly on this query (since it can't even implement it). I put a set of query features that I thought was suitable for most purposes into nucular. Others may appear in later releases, but the one's that are there cover the most common needs, I think. I would prefer benchmarks that compared simple common examples, not obscure complicated ones. -- Aaron Watters === if you want a friend, get a dog. -- Truman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
