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Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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have some live demos and practical use examples.

What would impress _you_?

Me personally I don't think it is impressing of Google to be able to store every web page in existance and to refresh them every other minute. I just don't think that is a good way of spending electricity while we haven't figured out yet how to properly utilize the sun's energy. Google is all-knowing while burning shit-loads of coal. What's impressive about that?

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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Thx for the feedback. What I think you should and hope you already do realise is Lucene is nowhere near maximum performance for full-text search nor is it's relevance. And implementing new scoring routines is a drag in Lucene.

Google is also nowhere near maximum relevance. I like word2vec. That model fits into my world view. I'm going to implement it and then take it further. Hopefully while being funded. If not then it shall be my contribution to the open source space and nothing more.

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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post #4

have some live demos and practical use examples.

What would impress _you_? Me personally I don't think it is impressing of Google to be able to store every web page in existance and to refresh them every other minute. I just don't think that is a good way of spending electricity while we haven't figured out yet how to properly utilize the sun's energy. Google is all-knowing while burning shit-loads of coal. What's impressive about that?

Back up you claims. Have benchmarks and demos. Why say these things when there are neighther benchmarks or demos out there?

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would impress _you_? Me personally I don't think it is impressing of Google to be able to store every web page in existance and to refresh them every other minute. I just don't think that is a good way of spending electricity while we haven't figured out yet how to properly utilize the sun's energy. Google is all-knowing while burning shit-loads of coal. What's impressive about that?

Back up you claims. Have benchmarks and demos. Why say these things when there are neighther benchmarks or demos out there?

My claims are backed up by the code I've spent blood and sweat to create. Disprove me please because I need to know of scenarios that I need to solve that goes into vNext, scenarios were I'm currently not doing great.

Edit: and also: I'm reaching out to you guys not because I want a pat on the back or free PR. I'm looking for advise as to how to move from having unique tech to having a business. Is this the right forum?

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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How does it compare to Groonga?

"Groonga is an open-source fulltext search engine and column store."

We seem to be at least cousins. Thx for that link. I will have to get back to you.

Edit:

Groonga seems to be cloud software. ResinDB is a in-process library, not a service.

Put ResinDB behind a service end-point and you have "ResinDB as a service", much more like the Groonga architecture.

Orchestration of read/write in a distributed service-like environment is something that is not solved within the ResinDB codebase. ResinDB is intended to be a component of a distributed database, not a distributed database in itself.

Groonga has been around since 2011. I started on ResinDB last year, in March of 2016.

Groonga make monthly releases. I take long pauses because of my lifestyle.

Groonga is a team of devs. I'm an independent solo dev.

Groonga is unmanaged code. ResinDB is managed code.

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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Totally unrelated to this topic, so please ignore if this is a bad place to discuss this.. but: How difficult is this to embed in Go? I've never heard of embedding C#. I suspect if I was to use this it would likely be outside of Go.

Right now I'm in need of an embedded indexer with full text search for schema less queries. I've settled with a (incomplete) custom indexer I wrote that applies FTS via Bleve.

However, I doubt this will scale well - so I was assuming that I'd switch to ElasticSearch or Solr. Resin sounds interesting though. Especially if I can embed it, and not have to run a separate process.

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back up you claims. Have benchmarks and demos. Why say these things when there are neighther benchmarks or demos out there?

My claims are backed up by the code I've spent blood and sweat to create. Disprove me please because I need to know of scenarios that I need to solve that goes into vNext, scenarios were I'm currently not doing great. Edit: and also: I'm reaching out to you guys not because I want a pat on the back or free PR. I'm looking for advise as to how to move from having unique tech to having a business. Is this the right for…

I think what OP was saying is that yes, it would impress _them_, and it may impress other _people_, and impressing people is generally good for business.

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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Totally unrelated to this topic, so please ignore if this is a bad place to discuss this.. but: How difficult is this to embed in Go? I've never heard of embedding C#. I suspect if I was to use this it would likely be outside of Go. Right now I'm in need of an embedded indexer with full text search for schema less queries. I've settled with a (incomplete) custom indexer I wrote that applies FTS via Bleve. However, I…

"and not have to run a separate process"

Not at all an unrelated issue to me, but unresolvable at the moment me thinks. To use Resin within the same process as a Go app Resin would have to be a Go library.

I'm glad you posted this because I don't think there is a embedded search engine library for Go, which is both a little funny but could also constitute a business optortunity for a Go programmer.

Would you care to talk a little more about your requirements?

Re: Show HN: Fastest search engine in the world

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That's a big claim and kudos if you really pulled it off. There is also the aspect of relevancy in addition to speed. I think the best way you can showcase is to build a few sample proof-of-concept search engines. For e.g., How about a search engine for Wikipedia? Project Gutenberg? StackOverflow? All these datasets are freely available. You can set up a search engine for this and easily let anyone be able to verify…

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