[Xapian-discuss] Xapian and Solr comparison

Charlie Hull charlie at juggler.net
Fri Mar 13 17:11:46 GMT 2009


Anurag Goel wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have been evaluating Xapian and Solr/Lucene for building a search
> application, and ran some tests to compare indexing and query performance
> between the two.
> 
> I think the results might be useful to others, and I have posted them here:
> http://www.anur.ag/blog/2009/03/xapian-and-solr/
> 
> In a nutshell, Xapian's index size (using flint) was much larger than
> Solr's, but the query performance was much better.
> 
> Best,
> Anurag

Just noticed another comparison, this time from 2006:
http://grupoweb.upf.es/WRG/dctos/Middleton-Baeza.pdf

Not sure if I'd seen this before. Unfortunately for some reason Omega 
(or Omindex) failed to index the test collection in a reasonable time, 
so was excluded from the final tests.

Charlie



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