[Xapian-discuss] standalone xapian server

[Alexander Lind]

James Aylett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:19:17AM -0700, Alexander Lind wrote:
>
>   
>> But take for example an indexing script, that will call several various 
>> xapian functions for each new document it indexes, or each old document 
>> it updates - this must be much slower if talking via http than with an 
>> internal php object?
>>     
>
> Depends on a lot of details, frankly. I wouldn't like to guess what's
> going on in your situation, but unless you have a PHP database, you
> can find another way of doing it that's as fast in many cases. It just
> might take a bit of work...
>   
I'm not sure what you mean by 'PHP database', but I do use is php 
functions that makes real-time changes to xapian-indexes, and the apps 
depend on these real time changes. I have a feeling this might become 
quite slow and more error prone (dropped http connections etc).

If I just used xapian for a classic search engine with one indexing 
function and one search function, then using a separate http app server 
or even a Python solution would probably work well. But we've been 
embedding a lot of Xapian functionality into larger php-apps (and we are 
extremely happy with how xapian makes them perform!).

Alec