Comments on: My Interview with Alex Fletcher of Entiva Group http://stephensnexus.com/2006/08/17/my-interview-with-alex-fletcher-of-entiva-group/ Dave Stephens on technology and business trends Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:20:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: AnonymousCoward http://stephensnexus.com/2006/08/17/my-interview-with-alex-fletcher-of-entiva-group/#comment-1153 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:00:09 +0000 https://procurement.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/my-interview-with-alex-fletcher-of-entiva-group/#comment-1153 Reading the interview I realized Ferret is nothing but http://lucene.apache.org/ port for Ruby. Lucene is a very good piece of code (I have been playing with it for about 2+ yrs) and it is nice of Doug Cutting to make it open source.

I was surprised to see the benchmarks at http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/MyFirstBenchmark that indicates that Ferret is faster than Lucene when it comes to indexing but slower for search.

Anyway, good to know Coupa is using a good text searching library.

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