Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-13 Thread William Silva
:) Ok, ok. I don´t think that this kind of investment($$$) so incredibly hilarious :) Maybe I could ask "Why use Solr and not use FAST ?". It is a really big diference :) But I think you are correct. Sorry . William. On Dec 13, 2007 3:28 AM, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : W

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-12 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Why use FAST and not use SOLR ? For example. : What will FAST offer that will justify the investment ? Am I the only one that finds these questions incredibly hilarious? particularly on this list? You should also email FAST customer service and ask them "Why use Solr and not use FAST ?" :)

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-12 Thread Svein Parnas
On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:50 AM, Nuno Leitao wrote: FAST uses two pipelines - an ingestion pipeline (for document feeding) and a query pipeline which are fully programmable (i.e., you can customize it fully). At ingestion time you typically prepare documents for indexing (tokenize, character

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message From: Nuno Leitao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:50:37 PM Subject: Re: SOLR X FAST FAST uses two pipelines - an ingestion pipeline (for document feeding) and a query pipeline whi

RE: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread Norskog, Lance
needs. It's turned out to be worthwhile because we only want to do one thing really well and we can customize Solr for it. Lance -Original Message- From: Nuno Leitao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:51 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: SOLR X

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread Nuno Leitao
FAST uses two pipelines - an ingestion pipeline (for document feeding) and a query pipeline which are fully programmable (i.e., you can customize it fully). At ingestion time you typically prepare documents for indexing (tokenize, character normalize, lemmatize, clean up text, perform ent

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread Ravish Bhagdev
Could you please elaborate on what you mean by ingestion pipeline and horizontal scalability? I apologize if this is a stupid question everyone else on the forum is familiar with. Thanks, Ravi On Dec 12, 2007 1:09 AM, Nuno Leitao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depends, if you are looking for a sma

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread Nuno Leitao
Depends, if you are looking for a small sized index (gigabytes rather than dozens or hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes) with relatively simple requirements (a few facets, simple tokenization, English only linguistics, etc.) Solr is likely to be appropriate for most cases. FAST however give

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread Ravish Bhagdev
Stability and better Support (at great cost obviously) On Dec 11, 2007 10:20 PM, William Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Why use FAST and not use SOLR ? For example. > What will FAST offer that will justify the investment ? > I would like a matrix comparing both. > Thanks, > William. > >

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread William Silva
Hi, Why use FAST and not use SOLR ? For example. What will FAST offer that will justify the investment ? I would like a matrix comparing both. Thanks, William. On Dec 11, 2007 8:15 PM, Matthew Runo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it all depends, what do you want out of Solr or FAST? > >

Re: SOLR X FAST

2007-12-11 Thread Matthew Runo
I think it all depends, what do you want out of Solr or FAST? Thanks! Matthew Runo Software Developer 702.943.7833 On Dec 11, 2007, at 2:09 PM, William Silva wrote: Hi, How is the best way to compare SOLR and FAST Search ? Thanks, William.