[BNM] Suggest in search - way of doing with MySQL?

[Alastair James]

2008/10/2 David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com>:
> You should watch out for potential problems scaling lucene if you have
> large amounts of data. Because it uses large index files, it can be hard
> to add extra hardware to take over load. Of course, you may never get
> into that situation.
>

That is one nice advantage of Sphinx, you can split the index into
parts and distribute a over several machines. Of course, never had an
index big enough to need that, but nice to know!

Al

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