[pylucene-dev] DbDirectory

[Yura Smolsky]

Hello, Andrzej.


AB> Folks,

AB> As a long time user of Java Lucene I can tell you that FSDirectory users
AB> are in vast majority. FSDirectory is very well tested and very stable,
AB> and is in production use by nearly 99.99% of Lucene users. So far I
AB> haven't heard of anyone using DBDirectory in production - BDB itself may
AB> be scalable, but DBDirectory might not. It has been only very lightly
AB> tested so far...

AB> I don't know the reasoning behind choosing DBDirectory over the 
AB> FSDirectory for your projects, but you have much better chances for
AB> scalability and stability if you stick to FSDirectory. For example, I'm
AB> currently working with Lucene indexes consisting of ~10mln documents,
AB> using FSDirectory.

What is the size of index? Do you store all index in one file?..
What is average search time?..

Have you recompiled PyLucene with your own
gcc and gjc versions?


Yura Smolsky,