Re: [Gossip] search library battle royale

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Temple
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Ok, ok, you score some serious points here, especially on Asian languages, but Xapian holds its own on European languages. I think. Check out some Brazilian Portuguese action below. And I hear the Xapian team is working hard on full UTF-8 support. Hope they aren't plann

[Gossip] search library battle royale

2006-09-04 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Lucene: it slices, it dices Right. That's just what I'd expect from a program whose name sounds like a brand of cheese. During the long cold war, children were inspired by Superman. In late 2003, Californians elected The Terminator to be their governor. These turbulent times demand strong, heroi

Re: [Gossip] Re: [Team] search library battle royale [draft]

2006-09-04 Thread Jeff Marshall
Lucene: it slices, it dices, it's twice as nice as...well, htDig 3.1 for sure. Here are a couple reasons why Lucene is the Battle Royale champ in my eyes: * Powerful searching features: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html - let's see the other kids do all this. * When