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![PUT to /v1/dbs/dbname
POST to /v1/dbs/dbname/schema/fields/text
{ 'type': 'text', 'freetext': {'language': 'en'} } }
POST to /v1/dbs/dbname/docs
{ 'text': ['foo'] }
(or PUT to /v1/dbs/dbname/docs/docid)
Present the API so far](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/rboultonss09-101109061840-phpapp02/85/Search-as-a-Service-with-Xapian-Search-Solutions-2009-14-320.jpg)
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Search as a Service with Xapian - Search Solutions 2009
This document discusses the development of an open source search API and backend called Xapian. It describes initial designs for the API, early prototypes, and ideas for future improvements like improving performance, reducing memory usage, and exposing features for horizontal scaling. The document also mentions various brainstorming sessions and hackdays that contributed to refining Xapian's design.
Search as a Service with Xapian - Search Solutions 2009
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- 2. Search as aservice with Xapian Richard Boulton
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- 7. “Every six months,a dozen web developers go to an easily defensible location, without the internet, and build a website” – James Aylett /dev/fort
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- 11. Back to work... ●“Flax” ● Rewrite from ground up ● Design a clean REST based protocol
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- 14. PUT to /v1/dbs/dbname POSTto /v1/dbs/dbname/schema/fields/text { 'type': 'text', 'freetext': {'language': 'en'} } } POST to /v1/dbs/dbname/docs { 'text': ['foo'] } (or PUT to /v1/dbs/dbname/docs/docid) Present the API so far
- 15. Present the APIso far ● Don't throw this one away!
- 16. Yahoo Hackday 24 hoursto make a site
- 17. Newspan – learningwhich news is interesting
- 18. Another gathering –more ideas and refinement
- 19. ● Separate searchfrom indexer ● More modularity ● Easier ways to specify searches
- 20. What's next? ● Performance– rewrite in C++ ● Lower memory overhead ● Expose horizontal scaling features of Xapian ● Easier install – fewer dependencies ● Produce an AMI for Amazon cloud ● Run a fully open source hosted search.
- 21. What's next? ● Keeptalking to developers and users, to be led by them!
- 22. Credits Richard Boulton richard@tartarus.org Andree Stephan: -http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/ Alderney_-_Fort_Clonque_02.jpg/800px-Alderney_-_Fort_Clonque_02.jpg Ted Drake: - http://www.flickr.com/photos/draket/3517960655/ Gruntzooki: - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3044/2710669746_c973e8b766.jpg