kar is a search server that is operated over http. It is designed for websites and applications which need a fast and simple to set up string search ability. Written in C++ it is quite fast, and can be used for queries on hundreds of thousands of items. Internally words are stored in a trie which when queried are scored according to Levenshtein distance.
- C++11 Compiler
- make
- libcppnetlib
- libboost_thread
- libboost_system
- libssl
- libcrypto
On Ubuntu you can install these requirements like this:
sudo apt-get install g++ build-essential libcppnetlib-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-system-dev libssl-dev libcrypto++-dev
To build just run make in root directory.
A small example "client" is included. To use you must have PHP 5.3+ and composer.
Note: you may need to install / enable PHP's cURL extension.
Change into client directory: cd client then run composer install to install client dependencies.
Then cd src and php example.php - make sure the server is already running (and same port etc).
Read through this file to understand how to write your own client.
Open dist/config.json
Host is the ip address this should bind to, likewise port should also be self-explanatory.
You may set the number of threads for the threadpool, usually it is smart to put this to however many cores you have if you know in advance. If you don't know in advance and want kar to attempt to set the pool size to what it thinks you have, set this to 0.
Set a password
I suggest you choose a random string.
Enumerate the database names you will be using. You can have as many as you want.
cd dist
./kar -c "config.json"
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