[Esip-discovery] Search as a Service

[Mattmann, Chris A (388J)]

Hi Hook,

No worries at all and thanks for passing along the AWS news here...

Thanks dude!

Cheers,
Chris

On Apr 26, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Hua, Hook (388C) wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> Good point. Just thought I'd mentioned it since it's Amazon AWS (one of
> the big players) that has deployed a discovery service.
> 
> It is interesting to note the similarities between Apache Solr's Update
> JSON document format and AWS's Search Data Format (SDF) JSON document
> format. But Solr has been supporting JSON Updates since version 3.1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hook
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/26/12 10:42 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)"
> <chris.a.mattmann at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Hook,
>> 
>> Apache Solr has been doing this too, for a while actually. They provide
>> a Zookeeper-based instance of Solr called "Solr Cloud", in Solr 4.0,
>> the current trunk development.
>> 
>> FYI here:
>> 
>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Hua, Hook (388C) wrote:
>> 
>>> From the makers of OpenSearch...
>>> 
>>> Last week, Amazon's A9 search capability was released as cloud service,
>>> CloudSearch [1], where one can upload our files to be indexed by their
>>> service for a scalable discovery mechanism. The usual faceted search and
>>> ranking are supported. More useful article here [2].
>>> 
>>> I suppose this was inevitable.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It would be interesting to see what impact this may have on Discovery
>>> and
>>> Earth Science Collaboratory. For Earth science data, which is larger
>>> than
>>> the normal use cases CloudSearch is targeting, it may become impractical
>>> to upload all of our high volume data records. So they do support
>>> indexing
>>> a user-provided Search Data Format (SDF) JSON document instead. Since
>>> CloudSearch also integrates with Amazon's S3 storage, it does gel well
>>> with the idea of putting all of our data into the cloud.
>>> 
>>> --Hook
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
>>> [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/12/amazon_aws_cloudsearch/
>>> 
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>> 
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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: chris.a.mattmann at nasa.gov
WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
Phone: +1 (818) 354-8810
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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