Searching magma string indices

Göran Krampe goran at krampe.se
Thu Mar 29 09:15:26 UTC 2007


Hi!

I haven't read or followed the discussion, but...

> I'd be surprised and disappointed if it is proven "impossible" given
> the considerable flexibility of Magma's indexing.  We probably just
> need a stroke of creativity or genius to figure it out.

...what about taking a look at say Xapian (seems to be the leading
indexing engine) and take a hint from them? Here is one pointer to their
new "Flint" backend:

http://wiki.xapian.org/FlintBackend_2fStructure

regards, Göran

PS. Swish-e which we use in Gjallar points to Xapian as indexing engine
for the future Swish-e version 3.



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