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quantleaf / probly-search

A lightweight full-text search library written in Rust that provides full control over the scoring calculations
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serialization and deserialization of the index #20

Open galop1n opened 1 year ago

galop1n commented 1 year ago

It would be quite useful to be able to save/load an index. I do not see a way to do so in the current interface

marcus-pousette commented 1 year ago

Not at the moment. I will do some work on this lib in the near future (weeks, month time) to improve this library, but have not considered this yet since you can very quickly rebuild the index if you got the original documents at hand (basically re-insert them). Would be interesting to know whether you have any particular use case where rebuilding the index is not applicable?

BafS commented 8 months ago

When you have live and heavy data this could be important. It would also make it possible to share the index across clients, like that you don't have to rebuild in every client. It's typically not possible to build the index on the backend if you have encrypted data.