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in thread Writing a database lookup tool

Apache provides Solr which is a web service wrapping Lucene. This can be queried using Apache::Solr or WebService::Solr.

What does it provide? Speed. Pure, uncut speed.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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Re^4: Writing a database lookup tool
by elef (Friar) on Jan 04, 2013 at 14:49 UTC
    Thanks but I'm looking for an offline lookup tool, not a web service. I.e. both the software and the data would need to reside on the user's computer.
    I updated the first post immediately after I wrote it to make this clear, but I guess you read it before the update.
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      So? The software won't know that it's not running on what you seem to think a server is. Your laptop would run this software, regardless if it was "online" or not.

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      Why do you believe your laptop is incapable of hosting a web service?

      perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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        I do not. But I assume that something that was designed to power a website might not be perfectly suited for writing a "client" application out of it. Perhaps it's aimed at experienced professional developers so it's not very straightforward to use, perhaps it requires the installation of a bunch of other server software that would make any self-contained final app very large and it may not be possible to integrate everything into a single executable, perhaps it would take a fair amount of extra work to integrate it with a GUI because it's not really designed for that. I would be happy to be informed that these assumptions are incorrect.
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