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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by burntsushi on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:38AM (#16883923)
> I've used Lucene on top of HDFS and S3 quite nicely.

Out of curiosity, what led you to do this? And what does it do better/worse/differently than out-of-the-box things like Elasticsearch or SOLR?

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by gazarsgo on Saturday April 21, 2018 @01:18AM (#16890102)
HDFS is supported by Solr+Lucene, but rather than my own poor paraphrasing, see what you think of this writeup: https://engineering.linkedin.com/search/did-you-mean-galene
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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by burntsushi on Saturday April 21, 2018 @08:02AM (#16891112)
Ah, excellent! Thanks. That answers my question. I also found the idea of early termination via static rank very intriguing.
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