I am using django haystack with xapian as the backend search engine. I am using FacetedSearchView and FacetedSearchForm for faceting over the search. I have passed searchqueryset to the FacetSearch...

I'm currently looking at other search methods rather than having a huge SQL query. I saw elasticsearch recently and played with whoosh (a Python implementation of a search engine). Can you g...

I'm trying to get a good natural language search going in a website, and trying to understand the advantages of Apache Solr vs Xapian. Xapian seems easier to set up. Do both offer good natural lang...

The requirement is that we have a lot of saved searches, and when new documents come in, we want to be able to find which saved searches are matched by these new documents, and be able to notify th...

I want to compile and use Xapian with xcode on iOS, is there any one with any experiments on this? Is it possible? Is there any other option for implementing full text search on iOS?I have tried S...

I am looking for a document search engine (like Xapian, Whoosh, Lucene, Solr, Sphinx or others) which is capable of searching partial terms. For example when searching for the term "brit" the sea...

I’m evaluating full text search methods for Rails 3 ATM. Does anyone here have a recommendation? Seems to me as if most of the known methods (Sunspot, Sphinx, Ferret, Xapian) aren’t yet ready for R...

I am studying fulltext search engines for django. It must be simple to install, fast indexing, fast index update, not blocking while indexing, fast search. After reading many web pages, I put in s...

The story so far: Decided to go with Xapian as search backend because it has all search-engine features I was looking for, knows about Unicode, stemming, has few dependencies and requires no bloat...

I am currently using whoosh to dev a website, and I'll need to choose something more powerful once the website will be in production. If anyone of you used both of these engines, which one gave yo...