solr vs fts

Christian Kivalo ml+dovecot at valo.at
Sat Jul 6 00:03:07 EEST 2019


On 2019-07-04 13:35, Felix Zielcke via dovecot wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.07.2019, 12:27 +0300 schrieb Aki Tuomi via
> dovecot:
>> On 4.7.2019 12.22, Maciej Milaszewski IQ PL via dovecot wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > So you're advised to use a solr or something else?
>> >
>> 
>> Using any FTS is advisable, currently suitable ones would be SOLR or
>> Xapian (see https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian)
>> 
> 
> Hi Aki,
> 
> I didn't yet think about using FTS either but followed a bit the thread
> about developing the Xapian plugin.
> How stable is that now?
> 
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS says above:
> 
> "The following FTS indexers (in preferred order) are supported"
> 
> but fts-xapian is listed below all others and Solr at the top.
Solr fts plugin is developed by dovecot developers therefore an 
"official" plugin. Xapian is an "unofficial" plugin developed by Joan 
Moreau.
> Is the wiki just outdated?
> 
> Felix

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