[Xapian-discuss] is xapian the right solution for me

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:39PM +0100, Stefan Becker wrote:
> -> wildcard search
> -> different "fields" where i can search in, for example "firstname"
> and "lastname", if i build a query i need to be able to search for a
> word in "firstname" and another word in "lastname". those fields need
> to be concated by AND
> -> sorting after a certain field, in my case the date where the user
> last updated his profile
> -> search for numbers like zipcode (in field "zipcode" for example),
> some engines dont support this
> -> live index updates, if a user changes his profile i need to update
> the index right away
> -> utf8 handling
> -> limiting the result to say 500 hits

Xapian can do all of these.

The wildcard support in the QueryParser class currently only supports
right truncation (i.e. foo*).

Cheers,
    Olly