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Re:Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library i... by ra on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @08:03AM (#6760847)
Solr, Sphinx and ElasticSearch are all reliable search-at-scale options for those of us without petabyte problems.

Whoosh is fine for very small datasets (megabytes) and low loads, just watch out for file permission issues.

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Re:Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library i... by Torn on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @09:03AM (#6761178)
ElasticSearch is actually designed to scale to petabytes and beyond:

http://elasticsearch.com/product/ ("petabytes of data with ease")

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