[SunRescue] FAST Database or search engine?

[John Lengeling]

David Rouse wrote:

> > I'm looking for a fast way to search an archive of over 15,000 emails
> of
> > a email list I'm on.  I tried webglimpse, but doesn't seem to do the
> job
> > right.  Also need something that works through Apache, but I don't
> know SQL,
> > so I don't know which other database options there are.
> >
>
> I didn't look around too long, but we use Excite for Web Servers
> (downloadable from the excite site, or was). Super easy to configure and
> fairly quick on about the same scale of text (25,000 news stories) on a
> 670/MP running four 40 MHz processors. The searches are indexed, which
> may not be what you want, and normally take about 5 or 6 seconds.
>
> If I remember correctly (I haven't had to mess with it much) it was
> mostly in perl.

Dump the Excite and get HTDIG.   Many times better versus Excite, IMHO.
With more features.

http://www.htdig.org/