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Search Research

IndexTank http://indextank.com/

• free option for up to 100k documents
• their ruby client looks dead simple
  • http://indextank.com/documentation/ruby-client
  • start simple, but build something more complicated as you want
  • good documentation
• more interesting gems
  • https://github.com/kidpollo/tanker
  • https://github.com/zencoder/index-tanked

Elastic Search http://www.elasticsearch.org/

• hosted options?
  • http://www.elasticsearchhq.com/pricing
    • free plan, paid plans haven't been announced yet but I contacted them
• good article on elasticsearch vs solr, conclusion makes me think we are more in the solr camp?
  • http://engineering.socialcast.com/2011/05/realtime-search-solr-vs-elasticsearch/
• gems
  • https://github.com/karmi/tire
  • https://github.com/grantr/rubberband
  • https://github.com/wireframe/elastic_searchable/

WebSolr http://websolr.com/

• starts at $25 a month for 250k docs
• built on Apache Solr
• multiple gems for integrating with your app
  • sunspot is recommended
• we may need to write an adapter for mongodb
  • http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-sunspot/browse_thread/thread/590dc621480f0789
  • https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot/blob/master/sunspot/lib/sunspot/adapters.rb
• or maybe not
  • https://gist.github.com/287191

Flying Sphinx http://flying-sphinx.com/

• doesn't work with mongodb out of the box
  • http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx/browse_thread/thread/95fd955d56301fa9
• someone has made a mongosphinx plugin but pretty sure it won't work with the hosted Flying Sphinx heroku addon
  • http://blog.digimonkey.com/2010/01/mongosphinx-with-mongodb-and-mongomapper/