How-to: Full-text search in Google App Engine

http://appengineguy.com/2008/06/how-to-full-text-search-in-google-app.html

by nickb • 18 years ago

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DocSavage• 18 years ago

There's a quota issue with running this full-text search against large blocks of text. I originally used the searchable model instead of db.Model for my Bloog app, but I removed it after getting quota errors when Google hosted. There wasn't a problem with local testing, just when using searchable models in the cloud.

xirium• 18 years ago

It may be that each search term in a full-text index is held in a separate but hidden table and therefore large chunks of text create a large number of rows. This would explain why inserts would be slower and why quotas are more likely to be encountered.

andrewparker• 18 years ago

It really surprised me that full-text search isn't easier on a Google-created cloud solution. Search is their bread and butter, you'd think this functionality would be a part of the default libraries Google created.

How-to: Full-text search in Google App Engine

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