Re: WebObjects and Search Speed
Re: WebObjects and Search Speed
- Subject: Re: WebObjects and Search Speed
- From: "b.bum" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:01:00 -0700
On Oct 22, 2003, at 4:55 PM, Alan Ward wrote:
> I'd agree if you're just doing exact matching... but if you're wanting
> a "Did you mean..." feature or if you want to implement boost factors,
> or many of the other common search mechanisms then you might
> find that implementing that yourself is more effort than utilizing
> an existing (and pretty good) open source codebase like Lucene.
Agreed, but overgeneralized in this context. We are only talking
about 600 rows. Even if an inaccurate search can eliminate 90% of the
results, you are talking about the user having to scan through 60 rows
of data. Not much and much likely even less with even the most
simplistic of weighting scheme.
I'm all for generalized solutions and using wonderful tools like
Lucene....
....but sometimes, the completely straightforward, totally linear,
brute force, inelegant solution really is the right/fast answer.
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