Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r@...> writes:
Brion schrieb:
Still, that's an external dependency, and running a Java daemon is not an out-of-the-box task on your standard LAMP server.
Agreed. Has anyone played with using ferret instead of lucene? Many third-party hosts support Ruby now, whereas Java support is minute by comparison.
Ferret currently does not support compact index file, which is the default format of Lucene index. This situation makes a small problem to reuse existed index files. Obviously we can re-index for Ferret, or just wait for Ferret being ready -- it's on the top of Ferret's to-do list.
Besides, Solr may be also deserved to mention since it focuses on reliability that in some sense proved by technorati.
Regards, /Mike/