[infinispan-dev] Re: Infinispan and search APIs

[Ray Hilton]

Hi guys,

I've been trying to get jbc-searchable working with JbossCache 3, but then I
noticed this thread for Infinispan.  I am trying to build a proof-of-concept
for a distributed searchable cache, and obviously infinispan with hibernate
search would be an ideal solution.  At what stage of development is this?
Is it possible to use the existing jbc-searchable code with infinispan?
Should I perhaps stick with jbc for now?

On a related note, I like the idea that each node builds and stores its own
indices for data it currently hosts.  It would also be nice if these indices
could be further partitioned (in our case, we would like to do this per-day,
other situations maybe based on a modulous of the hash code) to reduce the
size of the indices.  Replicated indices are ok if they dont change that
often, but ours will be updated almost constantly, and so you either need to
nominate one node to do the work, or have some distributed locking in place,
which would probably kill performance.  Building an index locally also
provides protection against index corruption by having redundant copies
around the grid.  We are intending to do deduplication and score
normalization ourselves.

I also tried using the jbosscache-lucene Directory implementation that Manik
wrote, but things started to die when lucene tried to merge segments.  Has
there been any work to create a infinispan-backed lucene Directory?

Regards,
Ray Hilton
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