Re: Using lucene in a clustered app server

2009-06-15 Thread Tarandeep Singh
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Amin Mohammed-Coleman wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking at Hadoop and Katta and I was wondering if some may be able > clarify the following: > > 1) Is Katta replacing the Hadoop Lucene contribution You mean the index package in Hadoop's contrib folder? So far what I ha

Re: Using lucene in a clustered app server

2009-06-15 Thread Amin Mohammed-Coleman
Hi I'm looking at Hadoop and Katta and I was wondering if some may be able clarify the following: 1) Is Katta replacing the Hadoop Lucene contribution 2) Are people still using Hadoop Lucene to perform indexing Cheers Amin On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Amin Mohammed-Coleman wrote: > Hi > T

Re: Using lucene in a clustered app server

2009-06-12 Thread Amin Mohammed-Coleman
Hi Thanks for getting back to me. I have briefly looked at Hadoop. It looks interesting but I haven't thought about using it for indexing. But I think it might be on the plan. I am doing the initial investigation and technology frameworks. I would be very interested to get an idea of how you a

Re: Using lucene in a clustered app server

2009-06-11 Thread Tarandeep Singh
Hi Amin, I am also working on similar implementation. But right now I am working on building Lucene Index in parallel using Hadoop. How are you building your Lucene index (or indexes) ? Have you tried Hadoop? If yes, we can share some design issues. Also, for serving Lucene indexes over cluster,

Re: Using lucene in a clustered app server

2009-06-11 Thread Amin Mohammed-Coleman
Hi we are thinking of implementing a solution like this. All nodes on the cluster has a local index from which searches are performed. Once an update on the index needs to happen the work is sent to a queue where there is a master who is responsible for updating the central index. The master is

Re: Using lucene in a clustered app server

2009-06-10 Thread Ian Lea
I'd recommend using your favourite queueing service to pass all updates to a central process, the one and only process that updates the index. If you don't already have a favourite queueing service, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Message_Service#Provider_implementations lists several JMS implem

Using lucene in a clustered app server

2009-06-09 Thread Newman, Billy
I am trying to figure out the best way to add to a lucene index across a clustered app server. I cannot grab an IndexWriter for each node in the cluster, because I would run into lock file problems. I am not sure if I can share one IndexWriter across the cluster because what happens when two o