On 20-May-08, at 9:06 AM, Binkley, Peter wrote:
Has anyone in the Solr community started looking at Sun's Minion (now
released under GPL 2.0)?
https://minion.dev.java.net/
And (dare I say it) might it be possible to wrap Minion into Solr as
an
alternative to Lucene? The Search Guy (Stephen Green) has been
writing a
series of postings comparing Minion and Lucene:
http://blogs.sun.com/searchguy/tags/lucene
The differences aren't huge (as he says, "In an alternate world where
Sun opened up a bit earlier, I would have been working on Lucene from
the get-go, rather than starting from scratch."), but Minion has some
functionality that might be useful to Solr users in some
circumstances.
Does it? I read all his posts, and it seems that the benefits are
indeed quite trivial (and the cons potentially substantial, though
these weren't really discussed). The license is also an issue.
-Mike
