Zend Lucene too slow to index question

I have been experimenting with Zend/Php/Lucene.
I have used Lucene extensively as Java in Tomcat Servlets.

Zend's php Lucene works the same way, but it is much slower
to index for some reason--way too slow to ever finish,
when working a moderately sized site--on a shared host.

I could try to figure out how to break the site up into chunks
and then index once and then update many times.

Are there any zippier alternatives to Zend/Lucene?
(google Custom Search give me poor match results).

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re: Zend Lucene too slow to index question

sliverdigger wrote:
....hhmmmmmmmm.
Might have to try making the index with java, and then use
php only for queries. Not sure it's all that compatible.

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re: Zend Lucene too slow to index question

On 24 Aug, 17:02, sliverdigger <sliverdig...@closenuf.netwrote:I've never used Lucene to have it to compare to but mnogo is very fast
in my experience. But its mostly written in C - which can be tricky to
install on a shared host (but if they do java....?)

C.

re: Zend Lucene too slow to index question

C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) wrote:Thanks, I'll look at that. Someone did tell me: yes, you
can create the Lucene index with a java application (no worries
about execution time) and then scp it up to the website, and
then query it with Php/Lucene from Zend. So I'll probably do that.



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re: Zend Lucene too slow to index question

Hi,

sliverdigger wrote:
Depends. A little bit different approach would be to use YAZ extension
for PHP as communication means to a (independent) Indexdata Zebra
server (which is a Z39.50 based index server, which is really good at
indexing many structured formats, especially XML). But it's certainly
more work than a quickly set up Lucene. Both YAZ and Zebra are GPLed,
but you can get commercial support from Indexdata.

This is e.g. used by the Koha library management software (Free
Software).

-hwh