<div dir="ltr"><br>Hello Jens!<br><br>Thank you for your contribution.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Yes, I use Ferret whenever I need some kind of search for a site or application I'm working on. Usually these are full text searches for product catalogs and/or html content - not really large scale, at most around 10000 documents. Most recent example is <a href="http://www.fahrrad-xxl.de" target="_blank">www.fahrrad-xxl.de</a>.<br>
</blockquote><div class="Ih2E3d"> <br> Is 100 000 your maximum documents Number?<br><br> We have more than 100.000.000 documents to index. 2.800.000 are already done but the indexation machine starts to be heavy! Do you think that ferret will be able to index all this?<br>
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* What is the best way to access a very huge Ferret Index? May we distribute it on several machines or not?<br>
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Afair there's no way to distribute an index across multiple machines built into Ferret. You could do the distribution yourself of course by clustering your data and distributing across several independent ferret indexes. Downside is that search result scores from different indexes aren't directly comparable.</blockquote>
<div><br> Yes, it is a good Idea. But how will we merge the results when we will get them back after a request?<br><br> </div></div><br>-- <br>===========<br> | Lyes Amazouz<br> | USTHB, Algiers<br>===========<br>
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