Right tools for python info space mapping project?

[Alain TESIO]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:34:59 GMT, oivvio at polite.se wrote:

>1. RDBMS
>MySQL, or PostgreSQL. Which one has better python bindings?

Both bindings are fine, you can find PyGreSQL and MySQLdb on
http://www.vex.net/parnassus

Compare the engine feature and performance. PostgreSQL has more features but is slower,
MySQL is very quick, great for primarily read-only databases, but you can have concurrency
problems with an heavy load and a lot of simultaneous read and update accesses.
MySQL has full-text indexing in 3.23, lookup FULLTEXT in the manual.

> 2. Full text indexing.
> As neither of the free RDBMS have full text indexing this will have to
> been done separately. Sourceforge hosts Wordindexer (a perl thingy that
> works with MySQL), mifluz (a c++ word indexer), and pyMiflus (python
> bindings for mifluz). What are you're experiences with these and
> similar tools.

I'm using udmsearch (the new name is mnogosearch, http://search.mnogo.ru/) to index web
sites (live example here : http:/onesite.org/dipsearch/search.php3), you can also index a
database (look at htdb in its manual), no python frontend however.

Alain