It is the perfect day to make one of this once in a while blog posts. I pimped up my blog a little just for this post. 

During the last weeks we worked hard on our new open source project and we finally could release the code into the source forge svn. We named the project katta since it is a african kind of monkey that loves to life in groups and is very social – so our project is. 

Katta is distributed lucene grid. Allows to server very large lucene indexes distributed over many servers. Therefore we divide the index into shards and each server serves a couple of those shards. Each shard is replicated so in case on server crashes katta can still serve the complete index without any hick-ups. 

We do not yet allow realtime/hot index updates but people from bailey another young source forge project work on that. However Mark Butler was so kind contributing some code that solves this problem and I guess we will work hard to get this integrated soon.

So check it out and subscribe the mailing list to give us some feedback.

http://katta.wiki.sourceforge.net/