http://simonwillison.net/2009-02-14T13:15:15+00:00Simon Willison2009-02-14T13:15:15+00:002009-02-14T13:15:15+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/14/xapian/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://xapian.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/xapian-performance-comparision-with-whoosh/">Xapian performance comparision with Whoosh</a></strong></p> Whoosh appears to be around four times slower than Xapian for indexing and empty cache searches, but Xapian with a full cache blows Whoosh out of the water (5408 searches/second compared to 26.3). Considering how fast Xapian is, that’s still a pretty impressive result for the pure-Python Whoosh. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/full-text-search">full-text-search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-boulton">richard-boulton</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search">search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/whoosh">whoosh</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xapian">xapian</a></p>