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I got a rude shock when I discovered that my company's hosts host python, but never JSP under our current plans.

I developed a search program in python (not Django) which uses Solr. I made use of these features (roughly in order of importance):

  • Solr CEL (inbuilt indexer for DOC,PDFs etc)
  • faceted search
  • highlighting
  • "more like this" searches
  • flexible relevance
  • returning data in very friendly formats (python objects in this case)
  • composing complex queries easily (just manipulation of text)

Could you reccomend an alternative that closely matches these features and actually work with most shared hosts? Our hosts are Hostgator and ResellerClub (shared).

I shortlisted Xapian as it has these features (but I am open to more options). Can it be deployed in a shared environment? Is the python support well documented and as easy?

Footnote: This problem was caused by a newb (me) to the company and a miscommunication with my boss. The JSP part went under the radar until too lare. And sorry if I sound rude and unhelpful. I am just nervous.

Jesvin Jose
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How about using a hosted Solr solution? They're not free of course, but migrating to another search engine will likely be a lengthy, complex, costly task. Not to mention that the alternative search engine probably won't be as powerful as Solr. Or get an EC2 instance or a VPS somewhere.

Either way, it is going to cost time and money, so it's a matter of figuring out what solution is easiest and cheapest.

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Mauricio Scheffer
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