Xapian is one of the indexation/search engines I’m planning on integrating to Dokeos instead of the current indexation/search engine that we have at the moment: MnoGoSearch. There are many reasons for that change: MnoGoSearch server is not GPL under Window, which makes it impossible for us to ship as part of Dokeos MnoGoSearch has crappy […]
This article was first written in March 2005 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/215). Probably the best reference about Searching Engines: http://www.searchtools.com/tools/ Of special interest in the Open Source market: ht://Dig mnoGoSearch Apache Lucene KnowledgeTree Hyper Estraier Xapian DocMgr Pinot Namazu SPyRO, SPyDI, and related Projects Tracker Middlewares Emdros OpenFTS DB tsearch2 (PostgreSQL) MySQL
This article was first written in February 2005 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/209). Since then, other massive players like Lucene and Xapian have been considered as open-source search engines, but were not included yet into this comparison. Introduction This article is an attempt to compare objectively the two wonderful Open Source Indexation Tools that […]
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