Comments on: The Eureka Momement http://www.nick-cash.com/2009/12/31/the-eureka-momement/ You will beat those who wield sticks. Fri, 14 May 2010 22:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brian http://www.nick-cash.com/2009/12/31/the-eureka-momement/comment-page-1/#comment-24607 Brian Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:37:46 +0000 http://www.nick-cash.com/wp/?p=339#comment-24607 I forgot my AIM password, just remembered it the other day actually. :P Pretty well, it was nice in that it supported English word stemming and was MUCH MUCH faster than the full text index method Drupal used. Our site had over four hundred thousand nodes so Drupal's search system often took 5 or 6 minutes to perform a search. Xapian cut that search time to something around 5-15 seconds. Solr was likely somewhat faster, but Xapian was easier to implement as it uses flatfiles for it's index. Solr operated as another separate daemofor me to administer if I went that route. I forgot my AIM password, just remembered it the other day actually. :P

Pretty well, it was nice in that it supported English word stemming and was MUCH MUCH faster than the full text index method Drupal used. Our site had over four hundred thousand nodes so Drupal’s search system often took 5 or 6 minutes to perform a search. Xapian cut that search time to something around 5-15 seconds. Solr was likely somewhat faster, but Xapian was easier to implement as it uses flatfiles for it’s index. Solr operated as another separate daemofor me to administer if I went that route.

]]> By: Nick http://www.nick-cash.com/2009/12/31/the-eureka-momement/comment-page-1/#comment-24603 Nick Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:54:32 +0000 http://www.nick-cash.com/wp/?p=339#comment-24603 My God! You are alive! You should get on IM more, I could have used your help numerous times during this project! Plus, there are some entrepreneurship related topics I'd like to discuss with you :) Search is an interesting beast. Xapian looks interesting at first glance. How did that turn out for you? My God! You are alive! You should get on IM more, I could have used your help numerous times during this project! Plus, there are some entrepreneurship related topics I’d like to discuss with you :)

Search is an interesting beast. Xapian looks interesting at first glance. How did that turn out for you?

]]> By: Brian http://www.nick-cash.com/2009/12/31/the-eureka-momement/comment-page-1/#comment-24592 Brian Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:03 +0000 http://www.nick-cash.com/wp/?p=339#comment-24592 Gah, there are definitely times I hate having to deal with search. :P We used Xapian in one of our larger projects, and our new Advertsing Order Entry system is using mostly using Drupal Views with filters. --Brian Gah, there are definitely times I hate having to deal with search. :P We used Xapian in one of our larger projects, and our new Advertsing Order Entry system is using mostly using Drupal Views with filters.
–Brian

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