From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:30:54 -0800 Subject: [sup-talk] bug: reproducable Sup crash, ferret-less rewrite? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1225650088-sup-7423@entry> Reformatted excerpts from Tomas Pospisek ML's message of 2008-11-01: > - has anybody tried to swap Ferret with any other indexer [also in > [1]]? Not AFAIK. There are a couple indexing options with Ruby bindings: Sphinx, Xapian, Solr, and HyperEstraier, off the top of my head. When I last looked, they all had their problems: Sphinx requires a daemon, is overly tied to databases, and has no incremental indexing, Xapian is confusing and doesn't seem to support document fields, Solr is Java, HyperEstraier doesn't seem to have anyone using it, etc. > - has anybody tried to fix the index corruption / ferret crash bug [2]? I'd love for someone to do this! Ferret has the best API and document model, by far, of any of the alternatives. -- William