Anurag Goel wrote:> All,
>
> I have been evaluating Xapian and Solr/Lucene for building a search
> application, and ran some tests to compare indexing and query performance
> between the two.
>
> I think the results might be useful to others, and I have posted them here:
> http://www.anur.ag/blog/2009/03/xapian-and-solr/
>
> In a nutshell, Xapian's index size (using flint) was much larger than
> Solr's, but the query performance was much better.
>
> Best,
> Anurag
Just noticed another comparison, this time from 2006:
http://grupoweb.upf.es/WRG/dctos/Middleton-Baeza.pdf
Not sure if I'd seen this before. Unfortunately for some reason Omega
(or Omindex) failed to index the test collection in a reasonable time,
so was excluded from the final tests.
Charlie