Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Daniel Vainsencher
Hi everybody. Been lurking for a while, nice to meet you all. How simple is simple? If it's as simple as fragments of words, and your text is really long, and doesn't change, you'll want to index the text in advance, to speed the searches. For this case, suffix trees or suffix arrays are very fas

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Oron Peled
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:22:09 +0200 Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > the activity is search and read and almost no update activity; When > matching tex

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003, Eli Marmor wrote about "Re: news from MySQL": > > Kernigan and Pike in their relatively-new book "The Practice of programming" > > give an example very similar to yours, as an example of choosing good > > On behalf of Amazon, I want to

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Nadav Har'El wrote: > Kernigan and Pike in their relatively-new book "The Practice of programming" > give an example very similar to yours, as an example of choosing good > algorithms. Their example involves a spam filter, which takes a given > message and needs to check whether a large number of

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003, Eli Marmor wrote about "Re: news from MySQL": > > Of course. Use perl. It is perfect for such things and as you probably know > > has a very strong regexps :-) >.. > > In my original post, I also mentioned the critical need for efficiency. >

RE: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: news from MySQL > -Original Message- > From: Eli Marmor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:10 PM > To: Linux-IL > Subject: Re: news from MySQL > > My question was confusing, so I want to add the following: > >

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Ira Abramov wrote: > not a free solution, but look at CDB from DJB: > > http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html :-) Last answers (yours and Tzafrir's) are getting more and more closer to my purpose, so I guess that my original question was not phrased well, and my last post helped to make it clearer. I saw st

dictionary [was: Re: news from MySQL]

2003-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > the activity is search and read and almost no update activity; When > matching texts against the DB, the length is

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Eli Marmor, from the post of Wed, 22 Jan: > > > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > > > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > > > > Berkeley DB? > > Actually, the records are stored currently in Berkeley DB... > :-) > >

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Oleg Kobets wrote: > > > And a similar question: If I have a collection of hundreds (simple) > > regular expressions, and want to find all the matches of them in a long > > free text, is there any Open Source library for this purpose? (like > > flex, but without generating C code + compilation to

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Oleg Kobets
> And a similar question: If I have a collection of hundreds (simple) > regular expressions, and want to find all the matches of them in a long > free text, is there any Open Source library for this purpose? (like > flex, but without generating C code + compilation to machine code; Just > a functi

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Boulgakov Andrei wrote: > > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > > dictionary? (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > > the activity is search and read and almost no update activity; When > > matching texts against the DB, the length is not kno

RE: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Boulgakov Andrei
Title: RE: news from MySQL > -Original Message- > From: Eli Marmor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]   > By the way: What is the list's recommendation for a database for a > dictionary?  (i.e. zillion records; English words are the keys; 99% of > the activity is search

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Eli Marmor
Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > > Indeed good news though they have long way till they match with postgres. > > and postgres still has a long way till they match with oracle. PostgreSQL also has a long way till matching with MySQL's popularity. > My choice and recommendation: PostgreSQL. Agreed. By

RE: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Alon Weinstein
> Indeed good news though they have long way till they match > with postgres. > > and postgres still has a long way till they match with oracle. > > My choice and recommendation: PostgreSQL. > > I might choose mysql for building really simple sites with > simple queries Does PostgreSQL match

Re: news from MySQL

2003-01-22 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Indeed good news though they have long way till they match with postgres. and postgres still has a long way till they match with oracle. My choice and recommendation: PostgreSQL. I might choose mysql for building really simple sites with simple queries -- Canaan Surfing L