collective.indexing

Abstract framework for queueing, optimizing and dispatching index operations for portal content.

Project Description

collective.indexing is an approach to provide an abstract framework for queuing and optimizing index operations in Plone as well as dispatching them to various backends. The default implementation aims to replace the standard indexing mechanism of CMF to allow index operations to be handled asynchronously in a backwards-compatible way.

Queuing these operations on a transaction level allows to get rid of redundant indexing of objects and thereby providing a substantial performance improvement. By leveraging the component architecture and Zope event system collective.indexing also makes it much easier to use backends other than or in addition to the standard portal catalog for indexing, such as dedicated search engine solutions like Solr, Xapian or Google Search Appliance. One backend implementation designed to be used with this package has already been started in the form of collective.solr.

For further information please visit the projects GitHub page at https://github.com/Jarn/collective.indexing or look for downloads at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.indexing