I do mean elastic search, and the hardest part is automating the installer, integrating the providers for all the file types you want, and building the first in

I do mean elastic search, and the hardest part is automating the installer, integrating the providers for all the file types you want, and building the first index,in a passive manor. But once you do that the overhead isnt horrible, you do the indexing on change, and results comeback as fast as a typical small query, 10 seconds tops on a typical desktop machine. We wrote a scheduler that on windows monitored the windows indexer itself, when it kicked off we scheduled it, and trigged it once the system finished. I don't honestly recommend it over windows search, but if portability, and multi system searching is required it worked great. But not a task for those who are crunched for time, or lack resolve.