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+From zebralist-admin@indexdata.dk  Sun Nov 24 23:16:24 2002
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+From: Kang-Jin Lee <lee@arco.de>
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+Subject: [Zebralist] Some progress on Harvest's move to Zebra
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+Hi,
+
+I finished first steps to use Zebra as fulltext engine for Harvest
+(http://harvest.sourceforge.net/). The performance boost after
+some testing are quite impressive.
+
+Here is my article I wrote for the Harvest mailinglist.
+
+Many thanks for Zebra.
+
+------------------------------------------------------
+Hi,
+
+The first results after some testing with Zebra are very promising.
+
+The tests were done with around 220 000 SOIF files, which occupies
+1.6GB of disk space.
+
+Building the index from scratch takes around one hour with Zebra where
+Glimpse needs around five hours.
+
+While glimpse blocks search requests when updating its index, Zebra
+can still answer search requests.
+
+While the search time of glimpse varies from some seconds to some
+minutes depending how expensive the query is, Zebra usually takes
+around one to three seconds, even for expensive queries.
+
+Glimpse' index occupies around 250MB of disk space, Zebra's index
+takes around 570MB.
+
+Zebra supports incremental indexing which will speed up indexing even
+further.
+
+There are still potential for faster searches when necessary, using
+tweaks on apache.
+
+On the other hand, modeling data is not complete, yet.
+
+To sum it up:
+- Zebra indexes data five times faster than Glimpse
+- Zebra doesn't cause downtimes for indexupdate
+- Zebra's search time doesn't jump from seconds to minutes for no
+  obvious reason, but stays constant within a range of one to three
+  seconds
+- Zebra can search more than 100 times faster than Glimpse
+- Zebra can process multiple search requests simultaneously
+- Zebra can speed up indexing by using incremental indexing
+- Glimpse's index size is only around half of the Zebra's index
+
+kj
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+From mike@miketaylor.org.uk  Sun Nov 24 23:41:14 2002
+Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:41:13 GMT
+From: Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>
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+In-reply-to: <200211242045.19196.lee@arco.de> (message from Kang-Jin Lee on
+       Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:45:19 +0100)
+Subject: Re: [Zebralist] Some progress on Harvest's move to Zebra
+
+> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:45:19 +0100
+> From: Kang-Jin Lee <lee@arco.de>
+> 
+> Here is my article I wrote for the Harvest mailinglist.
+
+Hi K-J,
+
+It's nice to read all this good stuff about Zebra!  I'm currently
+working on changes to the documentation for the next Zebra release,
+and I'd love to include a lightly-edited version of your message in
+the new document.  (Basically, I'd obscure the name of your old
+engine, so it's clear that we're trying to say good things about Zebra
+rather than score points off a competitor.)  Would it be OK for me to
+quote you?  If yes in principle, then I'll run the actual wording past
+you before submitting it.
+
+Thanks,
+
+ _/|_   _______________________________________________________________
+/o ) \/  Mike Taylor   <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>   www.miketaylor.org.uk
+)_v__/\  "You question the worthiness of my code?  I should kill you
+        where you stand!" -- Klingon Programming Mantra
+