ANN: NUCULAR B3 Full text indexing (now on Win32 too)

[Aaron Watters]

ANNOUNCE: NUCULAR Fielded Full Text Indexing, BETA 3

Nucular is a system for creating full text
indices for fielded data. It can be accessed
via a Python API or via a suite of command line
interfaces.

NEWS

Nucular now supports WIN32. Current releases
of Nucular abstract the file system in order
to emulate file system feature missing
on NT file systems which prevented older
versions from running correctly on Windows NT
based systems.

Proximity search added: Current versions of
Nucular allow queries to search for a sequence
of words near eachother separated by
no more than a specified number of other words.

Faceted suggestions: Nucular queries now
support faceted suggestions for values for
fields which are related to a query.

Faster index builds: Current releases of
Nucular have completely revamped internal
data structures which build indices much faster
(and query a bit faster also). For example some
builds run more than 8 times faster than
previously.

Read more and download at:

   http://nucular.sourceforge.net

ONLINE DEMOS:

Python source search:
 http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=malodorous+parrot
Mondial geographic text search:
 http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/mondial.py/go?attr_name=ono
Gutenberg book search:
 http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/gut.py/go?attr_Comments=immoral+english

BACKGROUND:

Nucular is intended to help store and retrieve
searchable information in a manner somewhat similar
to the way that "www.hotjobs.com" stores and
retrieves job descriptions, for example.

Nucular archives fielded documents and retrieves
them based on field value, field prefix, field
word prefix, or full text word prefix,
word proximity or combinations of these.
Nucular also includes features for determining
values related to a query often called query facets.

FEATURES

Nucular is very light weight. Updates and accesses
do not require any server process or other system
support such as shared memory locking.

Nucular supports concurrency. Arbitrary concurrent
updates and accesses by multiple processes or threads
are supported, with no possible locking issues.

Nucular supports document threading in the
manner of USENET replies. Built in semantics allows
"follow ups" to messages to match patterns that
match the "original" messages.

Nucular indexes and retrieves data quickly.

I hope you like.
   -- Aaron Watters

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