Re: Index types

2008-09-01 Thread Karsten F.
Hi John, I am not sure about the way Solr implements range query. But it looks like, that Solr is using org.apache.lucene.search.ConstantScoreRangeQuery which itself is using org.apache.lucene.search.RangeFilter So Solr do not rewrite the query to a large Boolean SHOULD, but it is reading all t

Re: Index types

2008-08-27 Thread John Patterson
It is a blurry line between the need to use a DBMS and lucene. For now Lucene works fine for my search needs and I use Terracotta to persist application state. So no need for a DBMS at all currently - although under the hood Terracotta uses BDB JE. Does Solr's range impementation use the large

Re: Index types

2008-08-27 Thread Karsten F.
Hi John, about "integration other index implementation": Sounds like you need a DBMS with some lucene features. There was a post about using lucene in Oracle: http://www.nabble.com/Using-lucene-as-a-database...-good-idea-or-bad-idea--to18703473.html#a18741137 and http://www.nabble.com/Oracle-and-

Re: Index types

2008-08-27 Thread Karl Wettin
27 aug 2008 kl. 11.11 skrev John Patterson: Hi, I know that Lucene uses an inverted index which makes range queries and great-than/less-than type queries very slow for continuous data types like times, latitude, etc. Last time I looked they were converted into huge OR queries and so ha