Re: Adding Lucene Search Capability to an Android app

2011-08-15 Thread Simon Willnauer
I have done it, its possible! :) Problems occur especially during indexing etc. since you have very limited resources. If you are using lucene 3.x you should be able to use a plain vanilla lucene jar and everything should work just fine. if you have more detailed questions I am happy to help. simo

Re: What kind of System Resources are required to index 625 million row table...???

2011-08-15 Thread Glen Newton
> We have increased the up to 4 GB... on an 8 GB machine... > That's why we'd like a methodology for calculating memory requirements > to see if this application is even feasible. Please indicate when you are speaking about the indexing part or the searching part. There are times where it is not c

RE: What kind of System Resources are required to index 625 million row table...???

2011-08-15 Thread Bennett, Tony
Thanks for the quick response. As to your questions: Can you talk a bit more about what the search part of this is? What are you hoping to get that you don't already have by adding in search? Choices for fields can have impact on performance, memory, etc. We currently have a "exact ma

Re: What kind of System Resources are required to index 625 million row table...???

2011-08-15 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Bennett, Tony wrote: > We are examining the possibility of using Lucene to provide Text Search > capabilities for a 625 million row DB2 table. > > The table has 6 fields, all which must be stored in the Lucene Index. > The largest column is 229 characters, the oth

What kind of System Resources are required to index 625 million row table...???

2011-08-15 Thread Bennett, Tony
We are examining the possibility of using Lucene to provide Text Search capabilities for a 625 million row DB2 table. The table has 6 fields, all which must be stored in the Lucene Index. The largest column is 229 characters, the others are 8, 12, 30, and 1 ...with an additional column that

RE: Regarding multiple index creation and Searching

2011-08-15 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi, This all depends on your index contents and hardware. In general the size of a single index / index segment vs multiple segments / indexes is not an issue on one single machine. To scale, you should also think of using more than one machine with e.g. ElasticSearch or Apache Solr instead of pla

Regarding multiple index creation and Searching

2011-08-15 Thread Saurabh Gokhale
Hi All, In my application, we have been maintaining lucene index for the 3 years worth of data. (more than 70GB of single lucene index). To improve performance, recently it was decided to break indexes into 1 year worth of data each (3 indexes). before we work on the required change, I wanted to g

Adding Lucene Search Capability to an Android app

2011-08-15 Thread David Linde
I am wanting to add lucene searching capability to my android app. I have trying to find out if anyone has done this yet? IF its possible? and what problems, or draw backs other people have had adding lucene to their droid app. I know the Droid has several different search options like SQLite FTS a