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It is WAY easier to scale (up AND down) over several nodes. So if you've got BIG amounts of text that you have to fulltext-search, Riak might be the better opti
by rb2k_ 16y ago
It is WAY easier to scale (up AND down) over several nodes. So if you've got BIG amounts of text that you have to fulltext-search, Riak might be the better option.
- bravura 16y agoAnd, for good measure, could you compare RiakSearch to horizontally scaling Lucene? And ElasticSearch, if you are familiar with it?
- samratjp 16y agoIMO, this is one of the better discussed comparisons on the whole Lucene sharding business: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201006.mbox/%3C149150.78881.qm@web50304.mail.re2.yahoo.com%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201006.m... EDIT: Also, keep an eye on Twitter's Lucene branch - http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/10/twitters-new-search-architecture.html http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/10/twitters-new-search-a...