Support full text search

[tieubao]

Hi @SalomonBrys, thank you for reading my issue. In case you are working on new pull request, can I ask you a favor for adding full text search to snappydb. It will be great if snappydb has this feature.

Best regards.

[SalomonBrys]

Hi @tieubao,
SnappyDB is "just" an Android Java wrapper around google's C++ library LevelDB. The way LevelDB work does not allow for FTS. Objects are serialized inside the store and just treated as BLOBs.

I can only recommend using a different store for FTS, either using SQLite for FTS only or using a recognized FTS library like Lucene. It depends on the capabilities you need (SQLite is easier but less powerful).

I don't think that SnappyDB will ever implement Full Text Search, sorry.

[tieubao]

Thank you for your reply @SalomonBrys . First time hear about Lucene, I think I will give it a try.

[tieubao]

@SalomonBrys can you give it a try to support full-text search on keys?

[SalomonBrys]

No.
As I have said, I don't think it is possible. LevelDB is certainly not made for.
I don't even see how this could be possible technically.