On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:
> > Apologies if my "nothing funky" sounded like you weren't doing cool > stuff. No offense whatsoever. I think my longer reply paints a more accurate light on what Lily means in terms of "SOLR for NoSQL", and it was your reaction who triggered this additional explanation. > I was merely attempting to say that I very much doubt you were > doing anything funky like putting HBase underneath Solr as a replacement > of FSDirectory. There are some initiatives in the context of Cassandra IIRC, as well as a project which stores Lucene index files in HBase tables, but frankly they seem more experimentation, and also I think the nature of how Lucene/SOLR works + what HBase does on top of Hadoop FS somehow is in conflict with each other. Too many layers of indirection will kill performance on every layer. > I was trying to imply that, likely your integration with > Solr was relatively conventional (interacting with its REST interface), > Yep. We figured that was the wiser road to walk, and leaves a clear-defined interface and possible area of improvement against a too-low level of integration. > and the "funky" stuff that you are doing sits outside of that space. > > Hope that's a clearer (and more accurate?) attempt at what I was trying > to say. > > Upayavira (who finds the Lily project interesting, and would love to > find the time to play with it) > Anytime, Upayavira. Anytime! ;-) Steven. -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Scalable Smart Data Makers of Kauri, Daisy CMS and Lily
