[Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net

[Oscar Usifer]

Folks,

We too were looking down the roads of adopting either Lucene, Xapian or Swish-e. At certain points during the architectural phase a good thorough comparison would have/still is worth MUCH, and some technical papers do exist from research universities (e.g. http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/xtf/Search_Engine_Comparison.pdf). I have not spent a lot of time looking for papers from Symposium Proceedings, Technical Journals, etc, so perhaps others can contribute/comment -- and boy is this an annual event on respective project lists(!)? Otherwise I see that then entire transcript of the flame-exchange was not posted, but would be very amused to read it (naturally off the list) :-) :-)

Thanks,
-OSC

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reini Urban" <rurban at x-ray.at>
> To: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org
> Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:54:18 +0200
> 
> 
> Rafael Jorge schrieb:
> > Well, your message smell like a Troll (I hope that isn't), btw...
> > This discussion fall in "my dad is better than your", I like 
> > Xapian, the Lucene for me is very "Java", and I don't like it, 
> > today I can write programs in too much languages with the same 
> > Search Backend.
> >
> > Good to you that Lucene is better for your case, but not for me, 
> > and anothers people.
> 
> You misunderstood that.
> xapian was better for my company, so I can continue to improve my 
> patches and I'll have for more time for xapian/omega in the next 
> year.
> 
> > I don't like discuss what is the better tool for some work.
> >
> > On 8/30/06, *Reini Urban* <rurban at x-ray.at <mailto:rurban at x-ray.at>> wrote:
> >     Just a short, amusing note.
> >     Today I presented my xapian/omega project in my company, and a
> >     colleague
> >     of mine did the same project in the last month using lucene.net
> >     <http://lucene.net> and
> >     mediawiki. I use phpwiki as frontend.
> >
> >     Well, what should I say. Though Lucene.net <http://Lucene.net> has
> >     much better windows
> >     support, esp. pdf and outlook integration and also notify hooks to
> >     reindex automatically changed documents, my approach got the sanctus to
> >     be developed further.
> >     We found everything we looked for, in a very short time, with the best
> >     ranking ad hoc, compared to lucene, and the omega layout was much
> >     better.
> >
> >     Though our userbase is a closed community, only company internally, I
> >     believe I may contribute the enhancements back to xapian.


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