First thought: Seriously, you guys couldn't just make SQL or something lucene-based work for this (like elasticsearch) ?
Second thought: Hmm, ooh well, I just use google with site: news.ycombinator.com
EDIT: It annoys me when people hate on SQL and act like it's OMGSOSLOW. I would agree that fulltext search BY ITSELF isn't amazing, but you can use something like Sphinx to wrap it and support awesome things like Soundex / Metaphone fuzzy matching. It's also stupid easy to set up. The NoSQL movement is, IMO, largely misguided. If you need to shard data and scale ridiculously, something like Lucene can probably do it. If you need bigger than that, use memcached /redis and shard and map/reduce queries....that makes sense, but NoSQL doesn't seem like a great idea for PRIMARY data storage. It seems like you better have amazing backups :)
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First thought: Seriously, you guys couldn't just make SQL or something lucene-based work for this (like elasticsearch) ?
Second thought: Hmm, ooh well, I just use google with site: news.ycombinator.com
EDIT: It annoys me when people hate on SQL and act like it's OMGSOSLOW. I would agree that fulltext search BY ITSELF isn't amazing, but you can use something like Sphinx to wrap it and support awesome things like Soundex / Metaphone fuzzy matching. It's also stupid easy to set up. The NoSQL movement is, IMO, largely misguided. If you need to shard data and scale ridiculously, something like Lucene can probably do it. If you need bigger than that, use memcached /redis and shard and map/reduce queries....that makes sense, but NoSQL doesn't seem like a great idea for PRIMARY data storage. It seems like you better have amazing backups :)