<![CDATA[Content with Style - Comments on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/feeds/rss/comments/266 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:57:34 -0400 Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #1 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7471 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7471 Hi Pascal,

Just to say there are also bindings to C#, Ruby, Tcl and even Guile, and you don't need Cygwin for Windows - you can compile it with Visual C++ into a Windows DLL. We've produced some pre-compiled packages for Windows at http://www.flax.co.uk/xapian_windows.shtml

Cheers

Charlie

]]> Hi Pascal,

Just to say there are also bindings to C#, Ruby, Tcl and even Guile, and you don't need Cygwin for Windows - you can compile it with Visual C++ into a Windows DLL. We've produced some pre-compiled packages for Windows at http://www.flax.co.uk/xapian_windows.shtml

Cheers

Charlie

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:53 -0500 <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #2 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7472 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7472 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:03:30 -0500 <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #3 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7473 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7473 No real benchmarks from my side, I'm afraid. All I can say is that I found xapian very quick when searching, but much slower when building up the index itself.

From what I gather sphinx is more about indexing an existing mysql table and indexes that very quick. The business requirements for my project however need date comparison and the indexing of aggregated data, rather than an existing table. Therefore I chose xapian, as it was more transparent and tweakable to me.

I didn't find any good benchmarks either while doing my quick bit of research, apart from this Rails based benchmark.

Hope this helps.

]]> No real benchmarks from my side, I'm afraid. All I can say is that I found xapian very quick when searching, but much slower when building up the index itself.

From what I gather sphinx is more about indexing an existing mysql table and indexes that very quick. The business requirements for my project however need date comparison and the indexing of aggregated data, rather than an existing table. Therefore I chose xapian, as it was more transparent and tweakable to me.

I didn't find any good benchmarks either while doing my quick bit of research, apart from this Rails based benchmark.

Hope this helps.

]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:34:13 -0500 <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #4 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7524 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7524 Made a mistake btw.

throw('message' . var_dump($e));

Not a good idea, unless you want to write straight to the php output! Fixed in the copy and zipped example code.

]]> Made a mistake btw.

throw('message' . var_dump($e));

Not a good idea, unless you want to write straight to the php output! Fixed in the copy and zipped example code.

]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:13:24 -0500 <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #5 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7528 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7528 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:06:44 -0500 <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #6 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7530 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7530 It is the php bindings for xapian, which usually install in your php include path somewhere.

sudo aptitude install xapian-core xapian-bindings

On Ubuntu this is all you need to do, and the bindings will go into /usr/share/php5 I believe.

]]> It is the php bindings for xapian, which usually install in your php include path somewhere.

sudo aptitude install xapian-core xapian-bindings

On Ubuntu this is all you need to do, and the bindings will go into /usr/share/php5 I believe.

]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:14:52 -0500 <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #7 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7542 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-7542 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:37:02 -0500 <![CDATA[Content with Style - Comment #8 on Fulltext searches with Xapian and PHP]]> http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-8062 http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/#comment-8062 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:24:14 -0500