Spring 2006 DLF Forum: Melvyl Recommender Project,
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3 April, 2006
For Further Exploration
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Scalability and Performance
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Successfully indexed and searched up to 9 million
records
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How will it do with 35 or 40 million records?
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We did need to tinker a bit....initially converted to MODS XML and indexed from there, but some basic needs weren’t met...e.g. formats (book, cd).
Now indexing without that step.
Also creating display from the indexes, rather than from stored documents.