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		ra on Nov 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching li... Solr, Sphinx and ElasticSearch are all reliable search-at-scale options for those of us without petabyte problems. Whoosh is fine for very small datasets (megabytes) and low loads, just watch out for file permission issues.

Torn on Nov 19, 2013 [–]

ElasticSearch is actually designed to scale to petabytes and beyond:

http://elasticsearch.com/product/ ("petabytes of data with ease")

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