Another possibility to add to our comparison might be http://lucy.apache.org
It appears active (latest release within the past two months). They freely
state they aren't as fast yet as Lucene is, but it might be faster than
Xapian's three and a half hours for Karl.. Might be worth consideration.
On 11/27/2014 12:25 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> I don't think we're at a place where we want to promote Xapian as the
> default ... support is very preliminary and we haven't done any speed
> or size testing
OK, well, I just bumped into it sideways because of "svn up" the other
evening. If you
Hey Karl,
I don't think we're at a place where we want to promote Xapian as the default
and recommended indexed search framework. We added support for it due to
CLucene's lack of updates, but support is very preliminary and we haven't done
any speed or size testing with it until your report! :)
I hadn't thought too much about the new Xapian search usage until I had
reason this morning to look at disc usage under ~/.sword.
Xapian indices are monstrous in size.
A touchstone for this is that my personal NETnote module has rawcom
ot+nt files whose size total about 23M. But the Xapian indic
