Are there performance hits for distributed searching?
Searching across multiple indexes odoes not have any significnt speed performance hit, in terms of the speed of Grapeshot algorithms. As outlined above, Grapeshot algorithms are very fast, such that disc read times for the computer hardware is often the more limiting factor on the performance of a large index system. Grapeshot considers it’s distributed search methods to be extremely efficient, and powerfully useful when combined with Grapeshot’s ability to simultanously write new data to an index at the same time as users are searching the very same index. How do you change an index file? There are simple API calls that allow you to add a document to the B-tree. When updating a document it is actually faster to collect the document from the Grapeshot index, delete it and add it back as a fresh document; than it is to recall it, edit it and update it. However both methods are available. Likewise it is easy to purge documents on an individual basis from any index. What skills do I need
