Re: Best Practice for Lucene Search

2009-02-02 Thread Karsten F.
Hi ilwes, Did you noticed the thread http://www.nabble.com/Lucene-vs.-Database-td19755932.html ? I think it is usefull for the question about using lucene storage fields even if you already have the information in DB. Best regards Karsten ilwes wrote: > > Hello, > > I googled, searched t

Re: Best Practice for Lucene Search

2009-02-01 Thread ilwes
I like the point about doing things the easiest way possible until it starts to become a problem. Thank you very much for your answers and for the insight how you handle this issue. You helped me a lot. Ilwes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Best-Practice-for-Lucene-Searc

Re: Best Practice for Lucene Search

2009-01-30 Thread Erick Erickson
Do you have a reasonable expectation that performance is going to be a problem? The reason I ask is that I'm always suspicious of efficiency arguments when "things are working fine". Unless and until you can confidently predict that you're going to hit a performance issue, do it the easiest way pos

RE: Best Practice for Lucene Search

2009-01-30 Thread Uwe Schindler
...@thetaphi.de > -Original Message- > From: Ian Lea [mailto:ian@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:57 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Best Practice for Lucene Search > > That answer is fine, but there are others. We store denormalized

Re: Best Practice for Lucene Search

2009-01-30 Thread Ian Lea
That answer is fine, but there are others. We store denormalized data in lucene, as you are doing, for display on web pages because we can get it out of lucene much faster then we can get it out of the various tables in the database. The database is not as fast as it might be, quite possibly slow

Re: Best Practice for Lucene Search

2009-01-30 Thread Nilesh Thatte
Hello I would store normalised data in MySQL and index only searchable content in Lucene. Regards Nilesh   From: ilwes To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Friday, 30 January, 2009 15:08:10 Subject: Best Practice for Lucene Search Hello, I googled, sea