Re: multi terabyte fulltext searching

From: Benjamin Arai <benjamin(at)araisoft(dot)com>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Cc: Postgresql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: multi terabyte fulltext searching
Date: 2007-03-21 16:15:11
Message-ID: 7EC5A5C3-B2AD-42BD-A853-94FA25AD4743@araisoft.com
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Can't you implement something similar to google by aggregating
results for TSearch2 over many machines?

Benjamin
On Mar 21, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Teodor Sigaev wrote:

> I'm afraid that fulltext search on multiterabytes set of documents
> can not be implemented on any RDBMS, at least on single box.
> Specialized fulltext search engines (with exact matching and time
> to search about one second) has practical limit near 20 millions of
> docs, cluster - near 100 millions. Bigger collections require
> engines like a google.
>
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