[ANNOUNCE] Ransacker extendable search engine

[Michal Wallace (sabren)]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Andreas Jung wrote:

> > Ransacker is a scriptable, incrementally-double-indexed search engine
> > written in python.
> 
> Did you make any benchmarks ? Can it handle 1GB data and more ? :-)


Hmm... Size of the index isn't in my test cases. It currently uses a
pair of DBM files, so the limit is whatever their limits are.. But
really I have no idea. I started developing it for a system that use a
lot of small indexes.

What i'm planning to do is break it into two pieces: an Index class
and a SearchEngine class... So if the current implementation doesn't
support 1GB+ of data, the Index half can be replaced with something
more powerful, perhaps written in C...

Cheers,

- Michal
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