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Don't forget Sphinx. http://sphinxsearch.com/ > Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version > 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. > > Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, > size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other > applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with > SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data > sources support fetching data either via direct connection to > MySQL, or from an XML pipe. > > Fast. Builds easy/everywhere. --Casey On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Alberto Accomazzi wrote: > Our project is looking to transition to a new search engine to handle > our bibliographic databases (5.5M records of bibliographic article > metadata + 0.6M fulltext articles). What we are looking for is > something easily tweakable, which offers fielded searches, > boolean/simple search logic, customizable relevance ranking, > proximity, > highlighting, synonym/stemming matching. Needs to run on a linux > 64-bit > box. The packages I am aware of are: > > 1. lucene/clucene/lucy > 2. kinosearch > 3. xapian > 4. zebra > 5. invenio > > Am I missing any from the list? Are any of these to be excluded based > on our requirements? I'd like to hear experiences from people who are > using or have used these packages. > > TIA > > -- Alberto > > ******************************************************************** > Dr. Alberto Accomazzi aaccomazzi(at)cfa harvard edu > NASA Astrophysics Data System ads.harvard.edu > Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics www.cfa.harvard.edu > 60 Garden St, MS 67, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA > ********************************************************************