From: Brian McCallister <brianm@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T21:58:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Odeum Inverted Index Library

Awesome!

I've not used Odeum, but how does it compare to Lucene?

This may take some pressure off of me to get the Lucene bindings out 
ASAP, though I am definitely still doing it -- too much bloody time 
spent playing with GCJ and CNI already. ;-)

-Brian

On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Zed A. Shaw wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is just a quick announcement of a Ruby extension to Mikio
> Hirabayashi's Odeum Inverted Index library which is part of both
> Estraier (http://estraier.sourceforge.net/ ) and QDBM
> (http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/ ).
>
> You can download the source package from:
>
> http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/ruby_odeum/
>
> Ruby/Odeum lets you index a set of documents (including meta-data) and
> then use the resulting index to do fast searches by words.  The
> extension supports most of the features and should become more 
> idiomatic
> as I work on it.
>
> Comments are welcomed.
>
> Zed
>
>