I agree, I'm not sure what's so different about HN's information where something like Lucene, Sphinx or any other full text search tool couldn't handle.
ThriftDB uses Solr internally so I don't want to give the impression that we've built new full-text indexing technology. Our goal with ThriftDB was to solve the search infrastructure problem. We wanted to give developers access to fast, scalable, on-demand, cloud-based search.
Here's a link to the ThriftDB docs in case you'd like to learn more:
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I agree, I'm not sure what's so different about HN's information where something like Lucene, Sphinx or any other full text search tool couldn't handle.
ThriftDB uses Solr internally so I don't want to give the impression that we've built new full-text indexing technology. Our goal with ThriftDB was to solve the search infrastructure problem. We wanted to give developers access to fast, scalable, on-demand, cloud-based search.
Here's a link to the ThriftDB docs in case you'd like to learn more:
http://www.thriftdb.com/documentation