Pisa – Probably the Fastest Full Text Search Engine Written in C++

PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia v0.6.6

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Description

PISA is a text search engine able to run on large-scale collections of documents. It allows researchers to experiment with state-of-the-art techniques, allowing an ideal environment for rapid development.

Some features of PISA are listed below:

• Written in C++ for performance;
• Indexing & Parsing & Sharding capabilities;
• Many index compression methods implemented;
• Many query processing algorithms implemented;
• Implementation of document reordering;
• Free and open-source with permissive license;

The best way to get started is by reading the official documentation .

If you want to get involved with PISA, please check out our Contributing page.

Reference

Reference to cite when you use PISA in a research paper:

@inproceedings{MSMS2019,
  title={{PISA}: {P}erformant {I}ndexes and {S}earch for {A}cademia},
  author={Mallia, Antonio and Siedlaczek, Michal and Mackenzie, Joel and Suel, Torsten},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Open-Source IR Replicability Challenge (OSIRRC 2019)},
  year={2019}
}

Credits

PISA is a fork of the ds2i project started by Giuseppe Ottaviano .