Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:59:49 +0400
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: UdmSearch news

Hello Forest, Liz and everybody @LWN!

My name is Kir Kolyshkin, I'm one of UdmSearch (http://search.mnogo.ru)
developers.

As you may already know UdmSearch is a search engine like ht://Dig, but
with some unique features of its own. UdmSearch is licensed under GNU
GPL. You wrote about it several times in your weekly "Development"
column.

And now I want to inform you (so you'll inform your readers:) about some
very recent news on UdmSearch development front.

Yesterday development version 3.1.5 was released. The excited news is
that 3.1.5 now includes first public beta of so-called "cache" storage
mode. Using cache mode UdmSearch is now capable of searching really fast
through millions of documents! You may visit our test web site where we
have indexed 4.3 million documents and check result output speed:

  http://udm.aspseek.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi

Cache mode has been developed internally during the last few months, it
is in fact build-in database backend. This does not eliminate the need
of some SQL server, but most of the data is now stored in that unique
"cache". The database structure makes search speed almost irrelevant to
number of documents being indexed.

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If you need more information, please don't hesitate to contact me
directly or all developers (devel@search.udm.ru).

Good luck,
  Kir.