[Koha-devel] Search Engine Changes : let's get some solr

[LAURENT Henri-Damien]

Le 04/10/2010 22:16, Fouts, Clay a écrit :
> Adding to the aforementioned limitations and desired improvements,
> another issue with Zebra is that it index builds scale very poorly.
> Indexes must be built serially, and it's a really problematic limitation
> for large catalogs. A parallelized index creation process would be a
> huge benefit. Does SOLR have that capability?
> 
> Also, what do you have in mind for continuing Z39.50 support? This is a
> must-have feature for many libraries. I've been investigating the
> possibility of using MongoDB or a similar dynamic indexer to replace
> Zebra, but the need to write a Z39.50 front end adds a great deal more
> work to the project.

Hi Clay.
Serious questions.
About z3950 support,
I investigated in JZ3950 Kit
http://k-int.blogspot.com/2008/05/exposing-solr-services-as-z3950-server.html
It seems a serious candidate.

About parallelized index creation process, I think I read something
about that for solr 1.4.1. But not sure if I can grab on that soon.
At least we are investigating solr multicore in order to use solr at its
best.
-- 
Henri-Damien LAURENT