I personally have nothing but the highest praise for Elastic Search. I haven't used either Solandra or Lucandra, however. But then why would I now I use Elastic Search? AFAIK there's nothing that I would want to do with ES that I can't. And it has really simple configuration and clustering that just works. Just like Cassandra in that respect :D
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Ikeda Anthony <anthony.ikeda....@gmail.com>wrote: > 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). > >> > >> > > -- --------------------------------------------- Paul Loy p...@keteracel.com http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy
