Yes, I have not yet seen any major benefits. I did see a "native NOT" mention (a query that is just a negation), which is nice.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:25:57 PM > Subject: Re: Minion, anyone? > > > 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
