look at elasticsearch too. It shards differently.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Rafael Almeida <almeida...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From Anthony Ikeda <anthony.ikeda....@gmail.com>: >> Well, we go live with our project very soon and we are now looking into what >> we will be doing for the next phase. One of the enhancements we would like >> to consider is an indexing platform to start building searches into our >> application. >> >> >> Right now we are just using column families to index the information >> (different views based on what we want to find) however it is proving to be >> quite a task to keep the index views in sync with the data - although not a >> showstopper, it isn't something we want to be handling all the time >> especially since operations like deletions require changes to multiple >> column families. >> >> >> I've heard of Solandra and Lucandra but I want to understand the experiences >> of people that may have used them or other suggestions. > > > I've had some experience with that. My main problem was that I had a limited > vocabulary and a large number of documents. It seems like solandra kept all > my documents on the same row for a given term. That means the documents don't > get spread out throught the cluster and search was painfully slow. We ended > up rolling up our own solution and not using cassandra at all for that > purpose (althought we still use it for storage). > >
