Text Indexing Resources
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A considerable number of text indexing solutions exist. This document discusses some of the more widely-known open source solutions.
- ht://Dig - a search engine solution for individual Web sites
- Hyper Estraier - a reasonably well-utilised solution by other software systems and applications
- Lucene - arguably the most popular text indexing solution in current use, original implementation in Java with bindings for, and ports to, other languages
- Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images - provides software from the book of that name
- PostgreSQL full text search - incorporates the previously separate tsearch2 functionality into recent versions of PostgreSQL (from 8.3 upwards)
- Sphinx - used by numerous large-scale public Web sites and services in a traditional document search role
- SWISH++ - an indexing and searching engine typically used for documents on Web sites
- Whoosh - a pure Python search engine, apparently attracting interest from various other Python-based projects reluctant to use Lucene, Xapian and other technologies
- Wumpus - an information retrieval system being used to investigate desktop search solutions, amongst other things
- Xapian - a reasonably popular solution implemented in C++ with bindings for various languages, with a heritage dating back to 1984 and earlier
- Zettair - previously known as Lucy (possibly the Lucene derivative of that name) which has "indexed the 426GB TREC terabyte track collection", implemented in C
Some links to comparisons:
