< Topsoil

So your topsoil ObjectDatabase is append only. You never update anything. But you'd like to index that thing so you can find things later right?

So I'm sitting in a presentation on Solr this awesome indexing thingie . And this guy's created a Ruby Gem called solor-ruby. Very nice.

So what if you used Solr to index your topsoil "database"? It scales big and this solr-ruby Gem is sweet. Just stream the new topsoil records through Solr and then use Solr to look stuff up. Might be just what the doctor ordered.

• solr is an indexing thingie built by the CNET guys on top of Lucene (built by Xerox PARC guy and others)
• SolRuby
• solr-rub
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