@martinklepsch Currently, how many users are using the website per minute, in average? .. just to get an idea of the scale

specifically, how many are using the search box per minute.

I am thinking that it would be easy to just not use a 100% Lucene solution for selecting the best search result, as long as the server is not under heavy load.

I can't give you good answers to that (there's no tracking) but I don't think that there's a lot of traffic to the search currently

@vincent.cantin what do you have in mind as an alternative to lucene? Definitely not committed to lucene but we'll need something that doesn't rely on keeping all data in memory I think

I am thinking that it may be doable to simply use a Clojure function for collecting the best n results, using the expressivity of Clojure instead of getting stuck on the advanced usage of Lucene, by parsing all (or a big part) of the libraries.

That would be a temporary solution that the end user could start to use until someone has time to use Lucene correctly.

@vincent.cantin the issue with a Clojure function is that all the data needs to be in memory. If we're looking for a temporary solution we could also consider just using sqlite LIKE queries