Monthly Archives: February 2010

Full Text Search (Part 4)

Posted on February 6, 2010 by MXH

I want to return to yesterday’s topic, and look at further optimizing the Full-Text Search (FTS) query. Although we’ve addressed the gross inefficiencies caused by suboptimal query plans, there is still some fat to trim; it turns out that the … Continue reading →

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Full Text Search (Part 3)

Posted on February 5, 2010 by MXH

Yesterday, I covered some of the more interesting parts of a prototype implementation of Full-Text Search (FTS) on the iPhone; today I want to start to address one of the performance problems in that prototype. To begin with, it takes … Continue reading →

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Full Text Search (Part 2)

Posted on February 4, 2010 by MXH

Today we’re back to implementing Full-Text Search (FTS) on the iPhone. On Monday I presented an FTS prototype written in Python, and since then I’ve been working on porting it to Objective-C, targeting Cocoa and iPhone OS. I’ve implemented a … Continue reading →

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Belated

Posted on February 2, 2010 by MXH

Due to my immersion in full-text search, Book Club is going to be delayed until Wednesday. My apologies. In the meantime, why not enjoy a Lore Sjöberg piece: Con Men Lose Their Cool in the E-Mail Era.

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Full Text Search (Part 1)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by MXH

I want to add full text search (FTS) to my iKnowPeople app. (Have I mentioned that you can buy it on iTunes?). FTS is a pretty old idea, and most DBs support it (albeit usually through some sort of add-on). … Continue reading →

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