1. Introducing Xapian Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011

3. 1.3 GB of text

4. Hierarchical categories

6. Lucene, etc Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011

7. Benefits Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011 Easy to install – and portable Fast searching Accurate Powerful

8. Drawbacks Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011 Not a database Single-writer, many reader Limited to 4.2 billion documents OS file size limit

10. C#

11. Java

12. Lua

13. Perl

14. Python, etc

16. Terms & Stemmers

17. Term Generator

18. Values

20. Logical operators: OR, AND, NOT, MAYBE

21. Ranges: alpha..omega

22. NEAR: “shop NEAR pub”

23. Wildcards (“report*”)

24. Synonyms Query Parser make it easy “ data management” AND NOT “real estate” AND NEAR data

25. Relevance and Sorting Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011 BM25 Probabilistic Relevancy Sort by rank/relevance Sort by values

26. Getting Started Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011 Know your data set What are users looking for How will they refine their search

27. Report Buyer Product Data Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011 item_guid title subtitle summary table of contents price category publication date availability product url

29. Category

30. Title

32. Subtitle

33. Summary

35. Availability

37. subtitle

38. summary

40. product code

42. availability

44. Availability

45. Demo Walk-throughs Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011 Indexing the data Query parser Sorting MatchSpies

46. The End Justin Finkelstein | @ilithium PHP London, November 2011 http://readthedocs.org/docs/getting-started-with-xapian/ www.redwiredesign.com blog.ilithium.com