Fwd: acts_as_solr benchmarking

Are the acts_as_solr folks here?    Thoughts on this
benchmark?

I'm interested in solr-ruby folding in ActiveRecord
capability and  
subsuming this niche.

	Erik


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chris Hostetter <hossman_lucenefucit.org>
> Date: March 31, 2007 3:37:42 PM EDT
> To: Erik Hatcher <erikehatchersolutions.com>
> Subject: acts_as_solr benchmarking
>
>
> Hey Erik, I would send this to ruby-dev, but i' not
subscribed.
>
> This guy did some benchmarking of acts_as_ferret vs
acts_as_solr ...
>
> http://calebjones.blogspot.com/2007/03/benchmar
king-actsasferret- 
> and.html
>
> ...there is no info on how he tuned Solr or the JVM
(I'm guessing  
> he used
> the stock example Jetty setup), but since i know
nothing about Ruby or
> Ferret at all I don't feel qualified to really evaluate
his  
> methodology
> or results.  But I thought you and the other Ruby'ers
might be  
> interested.
>
>
>
> -Hoss

On 3/31/07, Erik Hatcher <erikehatchersolutions.com>
wrote:
> Are the acts_as_solr folks here?    Thoughts on this
benchmark?

The test corpus was 414 documents... at that size I would
think, one
is testing mostly overhead.  Probably network overhead is a
sizeable
portion for both servers (and why they benchmark so
closely).  The
next largest amount of time is probably taken in query
parsing, not
query execution.

Also, if I'm reading it correctly, there was only a single
query
client (no overlapping queries like one would get in real
life).

-Yonik