RE: Using separate index for each user

2008-09-19 Thread Jimi HullegÄrd
TED] > Sent: den 19 september 2008 13:43 > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Using separate index for each user > > IF you create a field in the index which would hold username > then you can > create search queries to reject entries which don;t belong to > the

Re: Using separate index for each user

2008-09-19 Thread Alexander Aristov
IF you create a field in the index which would hold username then you can create search queries to reject entries which don;t belong to the user? it's much efficient Alexander 2008/9/16 Tobias Larsson Hult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > We're thinking of using Lucene to integrate search in a b

Re: Using separate index for each user

2008-09-18 Thread Erick Erickson
uuu, take anything Otis says as *much* more informed than anything I say on this topic . Erick On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Tobias Larsson Hult < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick responses! > > Good point about the warmup issues Erick, that's something we will > consider.

Re: Using separate index for each user

2008-09-17 Thread Tobias Larsson Hult
Thanks for the quick responses! Good point about the warmup issues Erick, that's something we will consider. Good to know that this kind of setup has been proved working for at least one :) I think we will do a small setup and test the performance. Thanks again for valuable input! Best R

Re: Using separate index for each user

2008-09-16 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Tobias, That's the approach I took with Simpy.com and it's been working well for several years now. You'll have to keep track of searchers and close them when appropriate, of course. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message > From: Tobias

Re: Using separate index for each user

2008-09-16 Thread Erick Erickson
The main arguments against using many separate indexes are 1> search warmup time. That is, each time you open an index the first few queries take much longer than subsequent searches. 2> Managing a bazillion indexes is non-trivial. That said, in your particular case these may not apply. I gu