RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-26 Thread Shay Banon
uing > the point... > > -N > > > -Original Message- > From: Funtick [mailto:f...@efendi.ca] > Sent: 26 January 2010 02:44 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass > > > > Minutello, Nick wrote: >> >> Mayb

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-26 Thread Minutello, Nick
-Original Message- From: Funtick [mailto:f...@efendi.ca] Sent: 26 January 2010 02:44 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass Minutello, Nick wrote: > > Maybe spend some time playing with Compass rather than speculating ;) > I spent few weeks by studyin

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Funtick
Minutello, Nick wrote: > > Maybe spend some time playing with Compass rather than speculating ;) > I spent few weeks by studying Compass source code, it was three years ago, and Compass docs (3 years ago) were saying the same as now: "Compass::Core provides support for two phase commits transa

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Minutello, Nick
Correct. Its not 2PC. It just makes the window for inconistancy quite small ... without the user having to write anything. -N -Original Message- From: Lukas Kahwe Smith [mailto:m...@pooteeweet.org] Sent: 25 January 2010 21:19 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Solr vs

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Minutello, Nick
From: Fuad Efendi [mailto:f...@efendi.ca] Sent: 25 January 2010 16:46 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass > >> Even if "commit" takes 20 minutes? > I've never seen a commit take 20 minutes... (anything taking that long > is broken, perhaps i

Re: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 25.01.2010, at 22:16, Minutello, Nick wrote: > Sorry, you have completely lost me :/ > > In simple terms, there are times when you want the primary storage > (database) and the Lucene index to be in synch - and updated atomically. > It all depends on the kind of application. Sure. I guess L

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Minutello, Nick
] Sent: 25 January 2010 16:06 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass > >> Why to embed "indexing" as a transaction dependency? Extremely > >> weird > idea. > There is nothing weird about different use cases requiring different > approa

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Fuad Efendi
> >> Even if "commit" takes 20 minutes? > I've never seen a commit take 20 minutes... (anything taking that long > is broken, perhaps in concept) "index merge" can take from few minutes to few hours. That's why nothing can beat SOLR Master/Slave and sharding for huge datasets. And reopening of I

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Fuad Efendi
> >> Why to embed "indexing" as a transaction dependency? Extremely weird > idea. > There is nothing weird about different use cases requiring different > approaches > > If you're just thinking documents and text search ... then its less of > an issue. > If you have an online application where

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-25 Thread Minutello, Nick
s mentioned before, they address different kinds of problems -Nick -----Original Message- From: Fuad Efendi [mailto:f...@efendi.ca] Sent: 23 January 2010 05:01 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass Of course, I understand what "transaction" means;

Re: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-23 Thread Uri Boness
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RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-22 Thread Fuad Efendi
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RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-22 Thread Fuad Efendi
uot;. I wrote this 2 years ago: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50711#272351 Fuad Efendi +1 416-993-2060 http://www.tokenizer.ca/ > -Original Message----- > From: Uri Boness [mailto:ubon...@gmail.com] > Sent: January-21-10 11:35 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.ap

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-22 Thread Minutello, Nick
I would tend to agree. -Original Message- From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com] Sent: 22 January 2010 05:18 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Solr vs. Compass Hi Ken, Based on this, Solr sounds like the way to go. Otis -- Sematext -- http

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-22 Thread Minutello, Nick
Agree with everything you said. -Original Message- From: Uri Boness [mailto:ubon...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 January 2010 01:25 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Solr vs. Compass > > There seems to be an implication that compass wont scale as well as solr - and I'

Re: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi Ken, Based on this, Solr sounds like the way to go. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Original Message > From: Ken Lane (kenlane) > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 12:07:56 PM > Subject: RE: Solr

Re: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Uri Boness
There seems to be an implication that compass wont scale as well as solr - and I'm not sure that's true at all. They will both scale as well as the underlying Lucene. Lucene doesn't handle distributed search or replication out of the box, you have to implement it using some of it's features (d

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Minutello, Nick
t [mailto:radam...@techtarget.com] Sent: 21 January 2010 18:16 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass > 2) Compass does a number of things really nicely (that afaik, isn't > addressed by Solr) > + Object-search engine mapping (great for structured data - i.e. not

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Adamsky, Robert
> 2) Compass does a number of things really nicely (that afaik, isn't addressed > by Solr) > + Object-search engine mapping (great for structured data - i.e. not just > text documents). I find writing the code that converts to/from a SolrDocument > a bit annoying (but in my current project, the

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Minutello, Nick
llo, Nick Sent: 21 January 2010 17:52 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass Not sure how many here have used both ... I've used raw Lucene in the past - and after that, Compass. More recently Solr. Here are some of the things I have noticed: 1) Stating the obvio

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Minutello, Nick
ill both scale as well as the underlying Lucene. -Original Message- From: Ken Lane (kenlane) [mailto:kenl...@cisco.com] Sent: 21 January 2010 17:08 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Solr vs. Compass Uri, Lucas, Thanks for your feedback. To clarify on some specifics, 1.

RE: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Ken Lane (kenlane)
;t be transactional, we will update the indexes periodically throughout the day probably via dataimport handler. Regards, Ken -Original Message- From: Uri Boness [mailto:ubon...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:35 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Solr vs. Compas

Re: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Erick Erickson
SOLR is, first and foremost, a text searching tool that scales. Are you searching lots of text here or not? There are situations in which you need both in order to accomplish your business needs, so asking "which one is best" is tricky to answer FWIW Erick On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Ke

Re: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Uri Boness
In addition, the biggest appealing feature in Compass is that it's transactional and therefore integrates well with your infrastructure (Spring/EJB, Hibernate, JPA, etc...). This obviously is nice for some systems (not very large scale ones) and the programming model is clean. On the other hand

Re: Solr vs. Compass

2010-01-21 Thread Lukáš Vlček
Hi, I think that these products do not compete directly that much, each fit different business case. Can you tell us more about our specific situation? What do you need to search and where your data is? (DB, Filesystem, Web ...?) Solr provides some specific extensions which are not supported dire