Re: Lucene vs Glimpse

2013-02-05 Thread Dawid Weiss
Here's another thought: if you desperately need complex searches then you could do a heuristic filtering to narrow down the search: use an analyzer that does some form of input splitting into terms (removing excess whitespace or even producing n-grams from the input), then do the same for the query

Re: Lucene vs Glimpse

2013-02-05 Thread Mathias Dahl
Thanks for the input! Seems I should give this another chance using the hints you all sent me. I'll report back my findings here. /Mathias On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Mathias Dahl wrote: > Hi, > > I have hacked together a small web front end to the Glimpse text > indexing engine (see http:/

RE: Lucene vs Glimpse

2013-02-05 Thread Uwe Schindler
gt; From: Mathias Dahl [mailto:mathias.d...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 10:26 AM > To: java-user > Subject: Re: Lucene vs Glimpse > > Jack, > > What you say sounds hopeful, but it also sounds like quite some work to > define/select the correct ana

Re: Lucene vs Glimpse

2013-02-05 Thread Mathias Dahl
esulting sequence of terms would match as a > phrase. It won't be a 100% solution, but it should do reasonably well. > > Is there a query that was failing to match reasonably for you? > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -Original Message- From: Mathias Dahl > Sent: Monday, F

Re: Lucene vs Glimpse

2013-02-04 Thread Jack Krupansky
. It won't be a 100% solution, but it should do reasonably well. Is there a query that was failing to match reasonably for you? -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Mathias Dahl Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 1:01 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Lucene vs Glimps

Lucene vs Glimpse

2013-02-04 Thread Mathias Dahl
Hi, I have hacked together a small web front end to the Glimpse text indexing engine (see http://webglimpse.net/ for information). I am very happy with how Glimpse indexes and searches data. If I understand it correctly it uses a combination of an index and searching directly in the files themselv