Lucene vs RDBMS indexing at scale

2013-02-05 Thread Drew Kutcharian
Hey Guys, I'm trying to figure out what would be a better approach to indexing when it comes to a large number of records (say 1 billion). As far as queries: 1. Only support exact matches (a field is equal to some constant value) or range matches (a field is larger/smaller than some constant va

Re: Lucene vs RDBMS indexing at scale

2013-02-05 Thread Drew Kutcharian
better support for the aggregate functions and save yourself the > overhead of having to worry about tokenization impeding your exact match > queries. > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Drew Kutcharian wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> I'm trying to fi

Looking for a Lucene Contractor

2011-03-05 Thread Drew Kutcharian
Hi Everyone, We are looking for someone to help us build a similarity engine. Basically we want to be able to show similar posts when a user posts a new block of text. A good example of this is StackOverflow. When a user tries to ask a new question, the system displays similar questions. Can L