From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:09:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216832349-sup-2908@entry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216802131-sup-4710@wrasse>
Reformatted excerpts from Richard Heycock's message of 2008-07-23:
> My one concern is that you are thinking of using Sphinx and as a
> consequence you are relient on a relational database. Is that really
> what you want for a mail client? I find this disturbing on two levels:
> having a full blown database system for email seems like overkill and
> the idea of an index bring based on a relational model quite appaling.
I feel exactly the same way. I'm using Sphinx's XML interface to add
things to the index, so there's no RDBMS involved. I hate XML but not as
much as I hate RDBMS.
The current plan is to actually store email/documents in some kind of
persistent key-value store. I have a preliminary very simple
implementation that just uses files on disk, but it will be possible to
swap that out to something like TokyoCabinet or AWS.
> There are a number of other indexs such as Xapian or Hyper Estraier
> both have ruby bindings and both are quite mature and widely used in
> other projects.
Interesting. I will check those out. I only picked Sphinx because it
seemed popular and robust, but it is currently making my life more difficult
than it really needs to be.
--
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-23 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 21:33 William Morgan
2008-07-20 23:28 ` Guillaume Quintard
2008-07-21 0:04 ` William Morgan
2008-07-21 5:43 ` Guillaume Quintard
2008-07-21 12:14 ` Peter Krenn
2008-07-21 15:22 ` William Morgan
2008-07-21 15:26 ` Stephen Patterson
2008-07-21 16:04 ` John Bent
2008-07-22 2:12 ` William Morgan
2008-07-23 17:40 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-23 22:26 ` William Morgan
2008-07-24 9:16 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-21 18:43 ` Lionel Ott
2008-07-23 8:45 ` Richard Heycock
2008-07-23 8:58 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-23 9:27 ` teroz
2008-07-23 21:41 ` Richard Heycock
2008-07-23 17:09 ` William Morgan [this message]
2008-07-25 12:11 ` Marcus Williams
2008-07-24 4:55 ` Guarded Identity
2008-07-24 9:21 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-25 16:00 ` William Morgan
2008-07-26 7:32 ` Guarded Identity
2008-07-25 7:18 ` William Morgan
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