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It's awesome what you can do with Postgres, undeniably, but it seems to me that if you're building a Rails app, for instance, it's an absolute no-brainer to use
by bshimmin 12y ago
It's awesome what you can do with Postgres, undeniably, but it seems to me that if you're building a Rails app, for instance, it's an absolute no-brainer to use the brilliant Sunspot gem with Solr. Yes, you have the moderate unpleasantness of setting up Solr and fiddling about with Java and XML files, but it's all pretty painless after that.
I don't know if similarly nice things exist for other web frameworks.
As others have said, what's described in the OP may well be "good enough" for many purposes but it seems like quite a lot of effort to get there.
- mctx 12y agoDjango has haystack[0], which I've used with an elasticsearch backend on a few projects and is generally pretty easy to set up and get good results with. I haven't had to do anything more advanced than autocomplete/boost/spelling suggestions, but from what I've read it seems pretty powerful. [0]: http://haystacksearch.org/ http://haystacksearch.org/
- rorydh 12y agoCheck this out for your app: https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search It's basically all that stuff minus the complexity of configuring it up for a rails app.