Faceted search engine and maximum content items

Hi,
First want to say that this is a great initiative and will no doubt take off.
Can you tell me about your plans for the "advanced search engines"?
One thing that Drupal has that Joomla doesnt is more advanced search engines being Faceted search, Sphinx, Apache Solr, Lucene etc.

All far superior to anything Joomla offers, making it not good for large sites.

If you can make it work with solr or similar, then this will be huge.

lucene.apache.org/solr/


Second question, related to the above.
I am looking to develop some websites that have more than 500 000 content items (listing websites).

Would this be able to handle it? Has anyone tested this or even joomla in general for its upper limits?

jxtended.com/extensions/finder/features.html
Just found the above, which seems to have filters, similar to faceted search.
Would this work together?

Hi and first of all welcome,
Now concerning your questions. I don't know the technology you are talking about, but it seems very interresting and I'll definately have a look. At the moment FLEXIcontent uses this: dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-boolean.html
It will be improved in the future version with a reindexing feature.
Concerning the size of the website you're talking about I say NO. It is not ready for that, and I don't think it will. My goal when starting to build this component was to provide freedom to our users to use all content modules and plugins easily and to be able to revert to com_content if they are not satisfied for any reason.
Thus, using content and category table has a performance effect. Multi-mapping has also a performance effect. (The biggest website I run is around 20.000 items)
Even with my second cache layer, I'm affraid it wouldn't be enough.
Concerning JXtended, I'll have a look also, but at it works with standard joomla search plugins, it should work with flexi
Cheers,
Emmanuel.

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I thought the JXtended Finder extension may work with FLEXIcontent right now because it uses the same com_content table.
But one thing mentioned on the Finder Article plugin page makes this unlikely.
The Finder - Joomla Articles plugin "Indexes the section and category title against the document."
So this would need to be modified for the FLEXIcontent categories instead.
See: jxtended.com/support/finder/plugins/245-...joomla-articles.html

They do have some info on creating Finder plugins.
jxtended.com/support/finder/customizatio...r-plugin-part-1.html
You would need to have Finder to develop and test.

Another person has already asked about FLEXIcontent support.
See the comments here:
jxtended.com/blog/releases/341-the-futur...nder-20-preview.html

Ask JXtended if they plan to support FLEXIcontent in upcoming Finder 2.
Most likely it is just an "only so many hours in a day" issue.

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Thats why Drupal is moving forward as it can be developed into larger sites.
My understanding is that these enterprise search engines will take massive load away from joomla enabling large sites.

It would be great to have a content mgmt system as you are developing with an enterprise search facility, would complete the package great.

I have asked Jxtend some questions but am not sure if its going to work.

The final search option will index files content also? Would be great to index content of a pdf, doc or any other uploaded text files