From a usability standpoint, elastic search is looking promising. I'll have to get more info through use on it's distribution as well.
Thanks :) On 28/09/2011, at 14:01 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > 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). >> >>
