From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T13:00:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ferret 0.10.6 released (and some benchmarks)


On Sep 20, 2006, at 7:48 PM, David Balmain wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
>
> ** Description **
>
> Firstly for those who don't know, Ferret is a full-text search library
> which makes adding search to your application a breeze. It's much
> faster than MySQL full-text search as well most other search libraries
> out there. It allows you to do Boolean (+ruby + rails -jewelry) and
> phrase queries ("the quick brown fox") as well as some more unusual
> queries like fuzzy queries (misspelling~ matches mispeling or
> misspellng), wildcard queries (Aus?ral*), range queries
> (date:<=20050601) and a lot more. Ferret also now offers query result
> highlighting and excerpting.
>
> ** Announcement **
>
> This is the first Ferret announcement I've put up for a while, the
> reason being, the most recent releases of Ferret have been alpha
> releases. I completely rewrote Ferret from the ground up so that it
> no-longer uses Lucene's file format and I was able to gain so great
> performance improvements in the process.
>
> On the topic of performance, it has recently been brought to my
> attention that some people are aware of Ferret but avoid it because
> they think it is slow. Just to put that myth to rest, here are the
> outputs for a simple benchmark, indexing the reuters corpus available
> at:
> <snip good stuff>
>
> Happy Ferreting.
> Dave
>

Hey Dave-

	Thank you for your continuing hard work on ferret. I am using it  
heavily in quite a few production rails applications and a few pure  
ruby projects too. This looks like a nice improvement over the last  
version and the benchmarks look great.

Thanks
-Ezra