[pylucene-dev] Announcing Grasyknoll, was Re: Need to build a high-load searcher

[Pete]

On Monday March 19 2007 6:24 pm, Ofer Nave wrote:
> Ideas/suggestions/anecdotes?

I was going to wait to go public with this until I had something more 
presentable, but...

As a result of the Pycon sprints, I'm pleased to announce Grassyknoll: 
http://code.google.com/p/grassyknoll/

From the wiki:

Grassy Knoll is a lightweight full text search web service. 

* Buzzwords: It is written in Python and provides a REST API. 
* English: Index & search text over HTTP. 
* About Me: Networked. Reasonably smart. Reasonably friendly. Language 
agnostic. Slick. Modern. Won't walk your dog.
* Seeking: Any application able to speak HTTP. We don't even need to tell your 
current database.

Basically, I'm building an HTTP wrapper around PyLucene.  The project is 
similar to Solr, but more Pythonic.  Less XML, optional schemas and 
definitely no Java.  We're aiming for a standalone multi-threaded server with 
high performance.  The goal is to support a wide variety of wire protocols 
and provide reasonable semantics.  See 
http://code.google.com/p/grassyknoll/w/list , especially CodeStatus and 
FuturePlans.

The project is early alpha at this point, but a working proof of concept using 
JSON can be found at http://grassyknoll.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.1/  and is 
also available from the Cheeseshop. There's no client ATM, but curl has been 
working fine here. BSD license.

Assistance is certainly appreciated.  I've got a bit more fidding to do with 
the interal APIs and a bunch of tickets to open.  Hopefully by the end of the 
week.

Development will be taking place mostly over IRC, though I do read email.  If 
there's sufficient interest, I'll set up a mailing list and #channel on 
freenode.

--Pete

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