On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:22 AM, phil cryer <phil_at_cryer.us> wrote:
> Hey all, I just started experimenting with CouchDB the other day, and
> it's pretty cool. With the amount of data the Botanical Heritage
> Library (BHL) is carrying, this may be an option for the future. Does
> anyone have any experience with it, or any pointers to a good howto,
> or basic setup/usage case? I appreciate that it's a different
> approach to an age old problem, and I can see it working hand in hand
> with things like hadoop (hdfs), lucene/solr, etc.
For full-text search, some experimental work has been done.
There's hypercouch which brings Hyper Estraier and CouchDB together:
http://github.com/davisp/hypercouch/tree/master
There's also couchdb-lucene which uses Lucene for full text search:
http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene/tree/master
People are still exploring this uncharted land (so to speak). Querying is
accomplished by hooking up an "external" service to CouchDB.
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ExternalProcesses
This is basically a process that stays resident, reads requests on STDIN and
sends responses on STDOUT as the wiki page I linked to above describes.
As for indexing, I think the smart way to do it is to follow
couchdb-lucene's example and setup an update_notification script.
--beppu
Received on Tue Mar 17 2009 - 14:11:48 EDT