General Discussion

Search fast in million rows

d17may

Jun 8, 2008 — 1 min read

I have a table .This table has many columns but search performed based on 1 columns ,this table can have more than million rows.
The data in these columns is something like funny,new york,hollywood
User can search with parameters as funny hollywood .I need to take this 2 words and then search on column whether that column contain this words and how many times .It is not possible to index here .If the results return say 1200 results then without comparing each and every column i can't determine no of results.I need to compare for each and every column.This query is very frequent .How can i approach for this problem.What type of architecture,tools is helpful.
I just know that this can be accomplished with distributed system but how can i make this system. I also see in this website that LinkedIn uses Lucene for search .Is Lucene is helpful in my case.My table has also lots of insertion ,however updation in not very frequent.

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