[Xapian-discuss] best practices - combining sql database and xapian, size of database?

[Per Jessen]

Newbie-alert:  I'm just getting started on a new project involving a
full text search requirement, and my initial investigation points to
xapian being the way to go. 

Two questions:

- eventually I'll most likely be indexing towards 50 million 
documents - is this reasonable to expect or attempt with xapian?

- each of my documents come with a set of attributes. These are easily
stored and indexed in a sql database, but I'm not quite sure how I
would combine a sql database lookup with a xapian query?  AFAICT,
xapian also has mechanism for associating attributes with a document,
might that be the right approach?


thanks
/Per Jessen, Zürich