IndexTank released their pricing plans(indextank.com) |
IndexTank released their pricing plans(indextank.com) |
Their business model seems to revolve around the fact that Lucene, Solr, SQL Server Full-Text search and other full-text indexing solutions just suck without serious customization, which can take months and cost thousands of dollars in consulting services, not to mention hardware costs. I believe they're handling all of Reddit's queries with one quarter of the hardware previously required (and unlike the previous version, it works).
I quickly found this http://pivotallabs.com/talks/105-indextank-full-text-search-... but haven't watched it yet. Is this the talk you are referring to?
Nice to see that the idea has other people working on it as well.