Cloudant (YC S08) Releases In-Database, Distributed Search
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Cloudant (YC S08) Releases In-Database, Distributed Search
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#2Come and kick the tires!
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#3Will this make its way upstream into the open-source BigCouch?
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#4Will this make its way upstream into the open-source BigCouch?
For now, this feature will stay a part of the closed-source hosted and licensed products. But remember you can always try it out for free with our Oxygen plan at cloudant.com
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#5Nice! I really appreciate the tone of Tim's post in that it acknowledges both the strengths and weaknesses of NOSQL in general and of Cloudant Search in particular in an honest manner.
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#6Wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with Apache Lucene/Solr?
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#7How does this compare to the various existing Lucene based search options for CouchDB? The post says the new Cloudant Search "is a way that would not require you to set up a third-party, financially or operationally expensive solution." Adding basic Lucene searches to a CouchDB setup isn't all that hard. What about elasticsearch and solr? Aside from the cost and hosting, are there other differentiaters between Cloudant's Search and these third party options?
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#8Wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing with Apache Lucene/Solr?
Not entirely. The big difference here is that you only have one, integrated architecture to maintain. So that means less operational complexity, smoother “scalability” of your infrastructure, tighter integration between DB & Search. Also, we added stuff like queries across several indices, typed queries, etc.
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#9How does this compare to the various existing Lucene based search options for CouchDB? The post says the new Cloudant Search "is a way that would not require you to set up a third-party, financially or operationally expensive solution." Adding basic Lucene searches to a CouchDB setup isn't all that hard. What about elasticsearch and solr? Aside from the cost and hosting, are there other differentiaters between Clouda…
I already responded to this partly in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2764736 — We think the integration into a single deployment is in itself a big gain. Maintaining several of those infrastructures can be very painful, especially as your clusters grow large. Also, as mentioned, we’ve also already added several features on top of Lucene, and we’ll be adding more in the future.
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