Free text search

[Cees De Groot]

The FullText package is a nice framework for churning through
documents, updating them, and for doing some simple in-memory
searches.

Combined with some of the more applicable index types in Magma, this
would give rudimentary full text searching capabilities.

Missing: boolean operators, filtering out common words, scoring based
on proximity of multiple search terms and/or frequency of occurrences,
...

So, if you need all that, it's maybe easier to dump your text into a
MySQL full-text table (which worked surprisingly well the last time I
used it - I have some VW code that interfaces with it), or into Lucene
("nobody gets fired for choosing Lucene"), or embrace-and-extent one
of the FTX engines in C (Mnogosearch and Namazu come to mind).

Of course, if the project is sufficiently large scale enough, you can
hire me to take care of this tasty morsel ;-)

On 12/20/05, goran at krampe.se <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> I may very well end up using Magma in a very interesting large scale
> project soon, and yes, I am also interested in querying capabilities
> that is being discussed in the other thread.