Norch is based on the node module "search-index" which is like a simplified lucene, built with Google's levelDB library (https://github.com/fergiemcdowall/search-index)
(so posting here is a bit cheeky- but I figured the solr/lucene readership might be interested :-) F On Jul 6, 2013, at 12:28 AM, "Jack Krupansky" <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > And... is is based on Lucene/Solr? > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Ali, Saqib > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 6:09 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Announcement] Norch- a search engine for node.js > > Very interesting. What is the upper limit on the number of documents? > > Thanks! :) > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Fergus McDowall > <fergusmcdow...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Here is some news that might be of interest to users and implementers of >> Solr >> >> >> http://blog.comperiosearch.com/blog/2013/07/05/norch-a-search-engine-for-node-js/ >> >> Norch (http://fergiemcdowall.github.io/norch/) is a search engine written >> for Node.js. Norch uses the Node search-index module which is in turn >> written using the super fast levelDB library that Google open-sourced in >> 2011. >> >> The aim of Norch is to make a simple, fast search server, that requires >> minimal configuration to set up. Norch sacrifices complex functionality for >> a limited robust feature set, that can be used to set up a free test search >> engine for most enterprise scenarios. >> >> Currently Norch features >> >> Full text search >> Stopword removal >> Faceting >> Filtering >> Relevance weighting (tf-idf) >> Field weighting >> Paging (offset and resultset length) >> >> Norch can index any data that is marked up in the appropriate JSON format >> >> Download the first release of Norch (0.2.1) here ( >> https://github.com/fergiemcdowall/norch/releases) >
