Hello Xapian folks, Because I've seen this sort of thing before, I wanted to let you all know about a big thing I've been involved with that's using Xapian extensively. The project is a non-profit, opens-source effort dedicated to helping communities use wikis. We're calling it Wiki Spot (http://wikispot.org). Our inspiration comes from the Davis Wiki project (http://daviswiki.org), which many of us had been involved with for a while now. We're using Xapian to provide both for the ability to search individual wikis as well as the ability to search across all of the wikis on Wiki Spot. Most all of our code is in python, so we've been using the standard xapian python bindings. We use an independent search daemon[1] to process both queries and writes -- writes spool up (Xapian can only perform one write at a time) and queries process in threads. Right now we average around one write every minute or so (bound to increase), and we're doing as-real-time-as-we-can-muster indexing. Xapian rocks! --Philip Neustrom 1. Not xapian-tcpsrv, it's a simple python-based server we wrote.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:56:36AM -0700, Philip Neustrom wrote:> We're using Xapian to provide both for the ability to search > individual wikis as well as the ability to search across all of the > wikis on Wiki Spot. Most all of our code is in python, so we've been > using the standard xapian python bindings. We use an independent > search daemon[1] to process both queries and writes -- writes spool up > (Xapian can only perform one write at a time) and queries process in > threads. Right now we average around one write every minute or so > (bound to increase), and we're doing as-real-time-as-we-can-muster > indexing.Cool! :) Are you happy to be added to <http://xapian.org/users.php>? If so, just let us know what details you'd like to share. J -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ James Aylett xapian.org james@tartarus.org uncertaintydivision.org
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:43:08PM -0700, Philip Neustrom wrote:> Hey James, that'd be awesome. Here's some details in the format: > > Wiki Spot > Application: Searching across hundreds of wikis > Document types: Wiki pages > Database size: around 25,000 pagesDo you have a URI? J -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ James Aylett xapian.org james@tartarus.org uncertaintydivision.org