Mike,

  There are a number of minor projects of this nature ie.
http://www.mnogosearch.org .

  Lucene is the dominant OSS indexer.  The only thing I could imagine would
be a problem would be Java, which PHP people seem to avoid like the plague
and needlessly FUD.  In addition, Java usually introduces a minor( if not
negligible ) hosting cost.

  re: Hadoop, I'm not sure if you want to use that on its own, its a file
system that is optimized for large volumes and I believe it has distributed
capability.

thanks, jmz


On 10/23/06, Mike Garfias <mike@garfias.org> wrote:
>
> Left out Swish-E as well:
>
> http://swish-e.org/
>
> Also consider using the filesystem that grew out of nutch:
> http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/
>
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>
> > Josh,
> >
> > I left out Sphinx, which is a lesser known option:
> >
> > http://sphinxsearch.com/
> >
> > -jmz
> >
> > On 10/23/06, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi,
> >
> >   Anyone have an experience or opinions on full text indexing with
> > MySQL? We currently use MS SQL with full text indexing, and its a
> > pain.
> > We are preparing for our db to add tens of millions of rows soon;
> > currently those tables are in the 600,000 - 800,000 range. So its a
> > big jump.
> > This data is fed to us and reloaded nightly. This data is used by
> > websites, and traffic increases with time.
> >
> > I'm concerned about performance in general, especially in text
> > searches. In case the topic starts to come up, I'd like to have any
> > idea how MySQL
> > well would handle something like this.  Or PostGre for that matter.
> > Any difference between running those DB's on linux versus Windows?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -j
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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