[KinoSearch] Numeric range searches, unicode, thread safe

[Stephanie Belton]

Hello,

 

I am looking into possible solutions for a searching facility on a
high-traffic multi-lingual (Russian and other Eastern European languages)
site. The site uses mod_perl and HTML::Mason so I am ideally looking for a
Perl solution. Looking at various benchmarking reports it would seem that
Plucene has major performance issues and therefore I am investigating other
solutions such as Kinosearch.

 

1) One of our requirements is the ability to filter (and/or possibly sort)
the results using a numeric field for the document (e.g. the 'Price' field
of the product). Is this something Kinosearch can do 'out-of-the-box'? If
not, would it be difficult to implement and can you point me in the right
direction?

 

2) What are the potential issues with the fact that Kinosearch is not
thread-safe? Would it still be able to handle concurrent searches on a high
traffic website? Do I need to ensure that the indexing is done sequentially
and not concurrently?

 

3) Finally all our documents are UTF8 encoded, looking at the mailing list
archive it would seem that this could work with revision 1030 rather than
the latest release on CPAN. What is the timeframe for a new stable release
with supports UTF8?

 

Many thanks

Stephanie

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