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Xapian talk slides | Searching with Xapian
https://xapian.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/xapian-talk-slides
The Xapian search engine, and associated topics. Last night, I gave a brief 13 minute talk to the “Cambridge Geek Night” – a group of around 30 very switched on and interesting technology people, meeting above a pub in Cambridge. The atmosphere was wonderful, and I had a great time. There were also talks from Taylor Vinters solicitors about intellectual property, and Michael Brunton-Spall about many of the Guardian’s electronics services and experiments. I’ve put the slides up on slideshare here. The sec...
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The Xapian Project : Bugs
http://xapian.org/bugs
We now use trac. As our bug-tracker. All bugs filed in the old bugzilla installation have been migrated. Please choose one of the following options:. View existing bug reports. Create a new bug report. Create a new trac account.
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Using Redis as a backend | Searching with Xapian
https://xapian.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/using-redis-as-a-backend
The Xapian search engine, and associated topics. Using Redis as a backend. Over the last year, the Redis. Database, or “data structure server”, has become wildly popular: it’s very lightweight and easy to use, but still very powerful. For introductory reading, I recommend Simon Willison’s tutorial. May 24, 2010 at 7:22 pm. Laquo; Xapian 1.2. Subscribe to comments with RSS. 8230;] Using Redis as a Xapian backend […]. Zz] Using Redis as a Xapian backend « 王一的Blog – a one and a two. May 25, 2010 at 3:33 am.
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Xapian performance comparision with Whoosh | Searching with Xapian
https://xapian.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/xapian-performance-comparision-with-whoosh
The Xapian search engine, and associated topics. Xapian performance comparision with Whoosh. There’s been a bit of buzz today about “Whoosh” – a search engine written in Python. I did some performance measurements, and posted them to the Whoosh mailing list, but it looks like there’s wider interest, so I thought I’d give a brief summary here. First, I took a corpus of (slightly over) 100,000 documents containing text from the english wikipedia, and indexed them with whoosh, and with xapian. In summary, w...
