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sbatschelet at mac

Aug 25, 2012, 12:11 PM

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Flax, Xapian Intergration

I am working on a site redesign and looking at options for internal site search besides swish-e and came across a few interesting programs. Has anyone played with Xapian or Flax and integrated it into Interchange. Both have perl clients so wouldn't be too bad to do just curious if anyone has had any experience with it.

Thanks
-Sam

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jure.kodzoman at informa

Aug 27, 2012, 4:49 AM

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Re: Flax, Xapian Intergration [In reply to]

On 08/25/2012 09:11 PM, Sam Batschelet wrote:
> I am working on a site redesign and looking at options for internal site search besides swish-e and came across a few interesting programs. Has anyone played with Xapian or Flax and integrated it into Interchange. Both have perl clients so wouldn't be too bad to do just curious if anyone has had any experience with it.
>

Hi Sam!

We have recently done a project with 17 million videos, where (fast)
search was really important. After some research, we ended up with
Apache Solr, which is really well supported in Perl. It's been a very
robust and good solution for us. It's relatively simple to set up and
well documented.

We've only heard praise of Lucene, from some of the big players which
use it so we decided to give it a shot. It was worth it.

I really suggest you try it. If you need any help, feel free to contact me.

regards,
jure

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Informa Studio d.o.o. - Internet Marketing Company
Zadobrovška cesta 75
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
+386 59 066 336
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pintos_jorge at yahoo

Aug 27, 2012, 7:57 AM

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Re: Flax, Xapian Intergration [In reply to]

Hey,being an Italian Am ,that lived & worked less than 1 km from sloveniaÂ
( Gorizia,Dolegnano,Cividale ed anche Muggia ) is nice to know that you work with IC and perl ( I guess ).
Regards
Giorgio
Now by Coral Gables,Miami,FL

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From: Jure Kodzoman <jure.kodzoman [at] informa>
To: interchange-users [at] icdevgroup
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] Flax, Xapian Intergration

On 08/25/2012 09:11 PM, Sam Batschelet wrote:
> I am working on a site redesign and looking at options for internal site search besides swish-e and came across a few interesting programs.Â Has anyone played with Xapian or Flax and integrated it into Interchange.Â Both have perl clients so wouldn't be too bad to do just curious if anyone has had any experience with it.
>

Hi Sam!

We have recently done a project with 17 million videos, where (fast) search was really important. After some research, we ended up with Apache Solr, which is really well supported in Perl. It's been a very robust and good solution for us. It's relatively simple to set up and well documented.

We've only heard praise of Lucene, from some of the big players which use it so we decided to give it a shot. It was worth it.

I really suggest you try it. If you need any help, feel free to contact me.

regards,
jure

-- Jure Kodzoman

Informa Studio d.o.o. - Internet Marketing Company
ZadobrovÅ¡ka cesta 75
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
+386 59 066 336
http://www.informastudio.com

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jon at endpoint

Aug 27, 2012, 9:13 AM

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Re: Flax, Xapian Intergration [In reply to]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Jure Kodzoman wrote:

>> I am working on a site redesign and looking at options for internal
>> site search besides swish-e and came across a few interesting programs.
>> Has anyone played with Xapian or Flax and integrated it into
>> Interchange. Both have perl clients so wouldn't be too bad to do just
>> curious if anyone has had any experience with it.
>
> We have recently done a project with 17 million videos, where (fast)
> search was really important. After some research, we ended up with
> Apache Solr, which is really well supported in Perl. It's been a very
> robust and good solution for us. It's relatively simple to set up and
> well documented.

Hi, Sam. We've had good luck with both Solr and Sphinx. Personally I'd
start with Sphinx now because it is lighter weight -- no Java, uses less
RAM, etc. But they're both really good search systems.

We used Xapian on a Ruby on Rails project a few years back and it didn't
pan out all that well, so I wouldn't go for it again without a good
reason.

Jon

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sbatschelet at mac

Aug 27, 2012, 9:36 AM

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Re: Flax, Xapian Intergration [In reply to]

On Aug 27, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Jon Jensen <jon [at] endpoint> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Jure Kodzoman wrote:
>
>>> I am working on a site redesign and looking at options for internal site search besides swish-e and came across a few interesting programs. Has anyone played with Xapian or Flax and integrated it into Interchange. Both have perl clients so wouldn't be too bad to do just curious if anyone has had any experience with it.
>>
>> We have recently done a project with 17 million videos, where (fast) search was really important. After some research, we ended up with Apache Solr, which is really well supported in Perl. It's been a very robust and good solution for us. It's relatively simple to set up and well documented.
>
> Hi, Sam. We've had good luck with both Solr and Sphinx. Personally I'd start with Sphinx now because it is lighter weight -- no Java, uses less RAM, etc. But they're both really good search systems.
>
Great input Jure and Jon thank you I am going to research Solr and Sphinx. Right away I see that Sphinx has a nice easy to follow website being lightweight is a big plus. Will post more info as I dive deeper.

-Sam

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