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LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

#21
"IndexTank says that LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months"

So, the Heroku plugin goes away and customers like Reddit have to make other arrangements. Interesting that they would shut down a viable business - I don't understand that.

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

#22

"IndexTank says that LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months" So, the Heroku plugin goes away and customers like Reddit have to make other arrangements. Interesting that they would shut down a viable business - I don't understand that.

Wow, we were thinking about integrating with IndexTank. Glad we didn't.

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

#24

"IndexTank says that LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months" So, the Heroku plugin goes away and customers like Reddit have to make other arrangements. Interesting that they would shut down a viable business - I don't understand that.

Wow, we were thinking about integrating with IndexTank. Glad we didn't.

Yeah, we had decided to go that way too, but now I don't know. Congrats to the team, and I'll be interested to see what they open source.

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

#25

"IndexTank says that LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months" So, the Heroku plugin goes away and customers like Reddit have to make other arrangements. Interesting that they would shut down a viable business - I don't understand that.

The Heroku plugin will not go away, neither will the IndexTank service if everything goes as planned.

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

#26
post #3

Great to see a fellow startup get acquired. But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will be open sourced. Or at least keep your service up until then. This is great for the IndexTank team, but screws all of their customers (of which I am one).

We are going to do exactly what you described. If everything goes as planned, IndexTank will continue to live on.

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

#27

I am really psyched to see IndexTank open source their technology (as notes mentions). Very intrigued to know which specific components of their technology will they open source - and how they fit within linkedin sna different projects http://sna-projects.com/sna/ and lucene / other open source projects at large. Really curious to know if any IndexTank / linkedin team member reading.

I'm reading. :)

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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post #27

I am really psyched to see IndexTank open source their technology (as notes mentions). Very intrigued to know which specific components of their technology will they open source - and how they fit within linkedin sna different projects http://sna-projects.com/sna/ and lucene / other open source projects at large. Really curious to know if any IndexTank / linkedin team member reading.

I'm reading. :)

So what specifically are you guys open sourcing and how does that complement existing open source search technologies like Lucene and the things that the folks over at Linkedin SNA have open sourced (e.g., Bobo, Sensei)?

Re: LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, we were thinking about integrating with IndexTank. Glad we didn't.

Yeah, we had decided to go that way too, but now I don't know. Congrats to the team, and I'll be interested to see what they open source.

Solr or ElasticSearch are the best options, depending on your specific needs.

ES if you need horizontal scaling, Solr if you need a specific and technical feature.

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