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Can you clarify why you would not use it on anything harder than a small site search? Without context, the comment is not especially helpful.
by WoodenChair 13y ago
Can you clarify why you would not use it on anything harder than a small site search? Without context, the comment is not especially helpful.
- mattdeboard 13y ago> Once my site grew larger than 50 mb of text queries started slowing things down. Indexing (python, single threaded) took a while and the larger the index the slower the queries were returned. I think this makes it pretty clear. Not sure how much more explanation you need.
- WoodenChair 13y agoWasn't in the original comment... yet another example of why HN should not have edit.
- ra 13y agoFor very small datasets, Whoosh is fine. For anything larger than 'site search' on a website that has no UGC, you're much better off with SOLR (or ES, Xapian or Sphinx - whatever your poison). When document counts get into the hundreds you see orders of magnitude faster queries with SOLR (etc), not to mention much more sophisticated querying options.