Re: [cgiapp] Plucene or Xapian?

["Perrin Harkins" <suppressed>]

On 3/19/07, Jesse Erlbaum <suppressed> wrote:
> I've used switch-e many times over the years.  Do you think it is
> lacking in any way compared to Xapian or Plucene?

SWISH-E is a very flexible system, with great performance.  We
considered using MySQL's full text search, but SWISH-E comes with a
lot of things ready to go (e.g. smart indexing of content from HTML
documents) that you'd have to write yourself otherwise.  If there's
anything to complain about it would be the lack of incremental
indexing.  However, given that it indexes gigs of documents in a few
seconds, that seems like a pretty minor gripe.

> What about compared
> to commercial systems such as Verity or Autonomy?

My experiences with Verity have been uniformly terrible (dirt slow,
hard to customize), but that was about a decade ago and they have a
whole new product line.  I don't see any reason to buy an expensive
tool like that at this point though, given how good the open source
options are.  Maybe if you had a need for something esoteric like a
stemmer in a language that you couldn't find an open source option
for.

- Perrin

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