Abstraction in Search

Another great event I attended this year.. PyCon India 2012, was better organized, had better talks, more audiences, job fair and more fun than ever before.. 🙂 Not to forget the evening dinner for speakers 😉 I loved every bit of it.... talking to experts, talking to Python enthusiasts, answering their Qs and wondering why … Continue reading Abstraction in Search

Tornado – Whoosh – MoreLike and MoreLikeThis

Like other search engines, Whoosh too provides more_like() and more_like_this() methods to find similar documents in the index, Typically, morelikethis doesnt execute any special query to get the list of similar documents to the one specified, but in fact it searches all other documents in the index relative to the document content that is specified. … Continue reading Tornado – Whoosh – MoreLike and MoreLikeThis

Tornado – Whoosh

  Search functionality is often considered as "good to have" feature in website development, but search plays a crucial role of locating relevant information to the website visitors. Serach capabilities can be built into a website easily with modules such as lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch and Haystack among others. This blog discusses about whoosh and how … Continue reading Tornado – Whoosh

Tornado – Redis

As defined on Redis website, it is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists among others. It's similar to say memcached library in the sense that it ia an in memory key/value pair but persistent on disk.. Redis has … Continue reading Tornado – Redis