by emmett on 12/22/11, 2:18 AM
This is awesome news. Massively advances the current state of the art in open source search.
Definitely considering replacing our search backend at TwitchTV with this...
by mattdeboard on 12/22/11, 2:50 AM
What is the differentiation between using this and using Solr? ElasticSearch?
What does "real-time" mean in this context? Is it indexing database content in real-time? Is it in reference to the look-ahead, predictive query completion LinkedIn has?
What would compel someone like me -- a dev who has ownership over the very significant search piece of my company's primary product -- to give this serious evaluation?
by biznickman on 12/22/11, 2:35 AM
Great news but I'm still willing to pay for someone to manage the operational side of this :) Know of any solutions? I'm aware of websolr but their configuration process wasn't as simple as IndexTank
by toisanji on 12/22/11, 2:41 AM
I'd like to see how this compares to lucene/solr. With solr its easy to index 100's of millions of docs, but its a pain to write a custom scorer.
by alexro on 12/22/11, 9:31 AM
Last time I read about IndexTank I noticed that their query language isn't that sophisticated, it could basically find only matches. Did it improve, is it possible to do fuzzy matches?
ADD: also, does it support non-english languages at all?
by gexla on 12/22/11, 1:46 AM
And a new startup offers a hosted IndexTank service in 3,2,1...
For anyone looking for a job at LinkedIn, making impactful contributions to this project could be a way in.
by SlightGenius on 12/22/11, 2:12 AM
Does IndexTank still integrate social inputs?
"IndexEngine: a real-time fulltext search-and-indexing system designed to separate relevance signals from document text. This is because the life cycle of these signals is different from the text itself, especially in the context of user-generated social inputs (shares, likes, +1, RTs)."
by lobster_johnson on 12/22/11, 5:37 PM
Anyone know about how IndexTank's facets scale with the cardinality of the attribute? We tried using ElasticSearch's facet system for tags, but we have about 150k tags, and this does not play well with ES. (It's very stupid about how it caches them.)
by swah on 12/22/11, 1:34 PM
Those kinds of services are mostly being written in Java these days, and everyone would aggree they constitute awesomer software than another Javascript blablabla library... so how can Java be dead? I should learn Java...
by fufulabs on 12/22/11, 3:20 AM
In terms of ease of installation > working state, how does it compare to ElasticSearch or Solr?
by iag on 12/22/11, 5:17 AM
very impressive linkedin. Good move.