Re: questions about search

2012-02-23 Thread Jason Toy
Ryan, Thank you for the informative reply. > - does riak search have the ability to do a join? A feature we heavily use > from the lucene unstable branch is the ability to do a "hash join" > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2272). > Our use case is we have documents of type U

Re: questions about search

2012-02-20 Thread Ryan Zezeski
Jason, In general Riak Search is far from a Solr/Lucene clone. It's main relation is that it supports the Lucene syntax and has an HTTP interface that roughly looks like Solr but doesn't support a lot of it's features and also has different semantics in some cases. If you rely on specific Lucene

questions about search

2012-02-19 Thread Jason Toy
I'm considering moving a fairly large data instance to riak because of the distributed nature and because of full integration with search. Avoiding the work of keeping solr and a datastore in sync sounds great. I've gone through the wiki pages regarding search and I have a couple of questions.