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Open Source Search Engine Benchmarks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the welcome-to-the-monday dept.

Sean Fargo writes "This article has benchmarks for the latest versions of Lucene, Xapian, zettair, sqlite, and sphinx. It tests them by indexing Twitter and Medical Journals, providing comparative system stats and relevancy scores. All the benchmark code is open source."

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  1. Re:k by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing else to say, really

    Really? Am I the only person that found it interesting that Lucene, the only non C/C++ implementation, gave some pretty impressive stats? I mean, it's written in Java and although it has a slower index time its search time, index size and relevancy are impressive.

    I may have to poke around in the Lucene code after work tonight to figure out what kind of strange majick those Apache developers employ. Hopefully I'll walk away with some extra spells in my bag.

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    My work here is dung.
  2. Re:k by julesh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really? Am I the only person that found it interesting that Lucene, the only non C/C++ implementation, gave some pretty impressive stats?

    Is it really that big a surprise? Given that some of the largest, most information-heavy sites on the Internet (e.g. Wikipedia) use it for their internal search?

  3. CLucene by drac667 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the other search engines except lucene are written in C/C++. Why didn't Vik Singh test also CLucene (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene/)?

    Here is the CLucene's description on SourceForce: "CLucene is a C++ port of Lucene: the high-performance, full-featured text search engine written in Java. CLucene is faster than lucene as it is written in C++."

  4. Re:k by nyctopterus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But Wikipedia's internal search is the suckiest thing that ever sucked! Seriously, does anyone use it, instead of just sticking "wikipedia" into their Google search?