[katello-devel] search over rest api - interface design

[Amos Benari]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lukas Zapletal" <lzap at redhat.com>
> To: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 10:53:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] search over rest api - interface design
> On 07/18/2011 03:28 AM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> > Lucene vs. scoped search
> > -------------------------
> > I am not really going to compere them because it's a bit like
> > comparing
> > oranges to apples.
> > I am just going to write a short description of scoped search and
> > try to
> > point what use case will each fit.
> >
> > scoped_search is not an indexer, it's also not a data store. It's a
> > light weight query parser, auto-completer and SQL query builder.
> > It enables feature rich search box in the GUI and a powerful API, on
> > top
> > of any RDBMS, no schema change is needed.
> > scoped search on top of RDBMS can easily handle structured data, it
> > returns updated data as soon as it's stored in the database.
> > No scoring, no ranking, just a simple "order by" clause in the SQL.
> > It
> > will scale as much as the underline database does.
> 
> Amos, thanks for explanation.
> 
> I was not aware of all the scoped_search features. I just wanted to
> bring fulltext engine(s) into account. Basically you say scoped_search
> is a query builder - this is really different task than what fulltext
> can provide.
> 
> On the other hand with fulltext one dont need to build any queries at
> all. One just input your text and it will just find it. No queries, no
> parsing. And still with ability to auto-completion or feature rich
> features like column definition or range search.
> 
> So yes - these are two different things, but solving the same problem.
> 
> Without having much details about scoped_search I thought it would be
> an
> option when you were describing pretty tough integration with backend
> engines if the indexing latency is not an issue. In addition to that I
> think Katello will need fulltext in future, because Satellite has the
> feature of searching through packages, files and descriptions.

Yep, I thought it's an interesting idea too, and captured the discussion
here: http://scopedsearch.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/scoped-search-vs-lucene/
Thanks,
 Amos.

> 
> --
> Later,
> 
> Lukas Zapletal | E32E400A
> RHN Satellite Engineering
> Red Hat Czech s.r.o. Brno
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