[SunRescue] FAST Database or search engine?

[David Rouse]

> I'm looking for a fast way to search an archive of over 15,000 emails 
of
> a email list I'm on.  I tried webglimpse, but doesn't seem to do the 
job
> right.  Also need something that works through Apache, but I don't 
know SQL,
> so I don't know which other database options there are.
> 

I didn't look around too long, but we use Excite for Web Servers 
(downloadable from the excite site, or was). Super easy to configure and 
fairly quick on about the same scale of text (25,000 news stories) on a 
670/MP running four 40 MHz processors. The searches are indexed, which 
may not be what you want, and normally take about 5 or 6 seconds.

If I remember correctly (I haven't had to mess with it much) it was 
mostly in perl.

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David Rouse
Network Manager
Goldsboro News-Argus