Xapian Users
The following organisations are known to use Xapian. If you are using Xapian or know someone who is, please add an entry to the wiki.
Categories
- Search Websites
- News Websites
- Community Websites
- Other Websites
- Desktop Search Applications
- Web Based Applications
- Software Frameworks
Search Websites
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Application: Searching academic papers
Languages: Mostly English
Database size: around 300,000 papers (2006-02-06)
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Xapian is used with OpenBib to search
the library's OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)
Languages: German
Database size: over 7.3 million title entries split across 167 separate databases (2008-03-14)
News Websites
- Die Zeit - German NewspaperApplication: Searching newspaper articles; also powers internal search facilities for newspaper staff.
Languages: German
- ABC StartsidenApplication: Search through 3 years worth of Norwegian news
Location: ABCSok and Overblikk
Languages: Norwegian
Document types: News stories -
Application: Searching articles about the Balkans
Languages: Italian, English, and others
Community Websites
- del.icio.us - social bookmarking siteApplication: searching bookmarks
Database size: More than 100 million bookmarked URLs
Note: Since delicious has now been bought by Yahoo, it seems likely that Yahoo have migrated it to use their own search technology. - Tweakers.net - the largest Dutch ICT-websiteApplication: Forum search engine
Languages: Dutch
Document types: Complete forum discussions
Database size: Over 850,000 documents, about 15GB of uncompressed, 10GB compressed database size. (2008-07-14) -
Application: Searching Hansard, the UK House of Commons Official Report; also email alerts
Languages: English
Database size: around 500,000 documents; 0.5G of source data. (2006-02-06) - React - Supplier of Forum SoftwareApplication: Searching discussion forums - sites include the city of Amsterdam, the Dutch broadcasting organization VPRO, Webpiraat, and GKV (a Dutch interchurch organization)
Languages: Dutch
Document types: forum topics
Database size: around 900,000 topics (2004-08-19) - Application: web api to gazetteer service, built using Search::Xapian
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Application: Free online community with profiles, chat, boards, blogs, games, and more
Languages: German
Document types: User profiles, forums, mails, and help documents
Database size: 1.89 million documents (2007-03-29) - Application: Searching UK Freedom of Information Act requests and responses
- Application: Official German Portal for Ubuntu Linux
Other Websites
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Application: Searching archives of mailing lists (Gmane allows these to be viewed as newsgroups, or on the web)
Location: search.gmane.org
Database size: 67 million messages (2009-05-18) -
Debian use Xapian for:
- Debian Mailing List Archive Search
Languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Database size: 3.9 million messages (2009-05-18) - Debian Wiki Search
Database size: over 6700 pages (2009-05-18) - Searching their archive of software packages
Database size: over 30000 packages (2009-03-16) - Debtags Package Tagging uses Xapian for its full text search, smart search, and tag editor.
- Debian Mailing List Archive Search
- Qoop - Online Auction SiteApplication: Searching online auctions
Languages: Dutch
Database size: around 1.2 million documents (2009-03-14) -
Application: Product Search for on-line store
Database size: 9000 products (2006-04-08) - Application: Searching mailing list archive
- Provides a way to organise your Mac OS X applications and discover new ones (also available for iPhone and Microsoft Windows applications).
- Application: Home decoration website
- Application: Subtitle search for Doctor Who episodes.
Desktop Search Applications
- Application: Recoll is a personal full text search tool
- Application: Pinot is a personal search and metasearch tool for the Free Desktop
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Application: The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is building a low-cost laptop for the world's poorest children. The datastore search is implemented using
Xapian.
Web Based Applications
- Application: Roundup is an Issue Tracker which can use Xapian for searching
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Application: Wiki Engine with built in Xapian-powered search
Example deployments:- Wiki Spot - searching across hundreds of wikis - around 25,000 pages (2007-08-23)
- Davis, California, USA: 13,290 pages (2009-03-14)
- Rochester, NY, USA: 8,929 pages (2009-03-13)
- Application: Open source web application providing email management for customer service, help desk, etc.
- Application: Wiki software with Xapian search (as of version 1.6)
- Application: Experimental version of LXR, the Linux Cross Referencer
- Application: Wiki software with Xapian search (as of version 2.49)
- French Web content management software. Xapian powers the website search and is available as a module version 4.0.0 (in beta as of 2009-03-06).
- oVirt provides management of virtual machines via a web-based virtual machine management console, and uses Xapian to provide search functionality.
Software Frameworks
- Catalyst is a Web Development Framework which includes support for using Xapian as a search engine.
- Synd is a software framework written in PHP, used primarily for building dynamic websites. It allows Xapian to be used to provide an integrated search engine.
- Djapian provides integration between Xapian and Django (a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design).
- Flax is an enterprise search platform based on Xapian, with a web-based administration system, scheduled indexing, and more. It's written in Python.
- acts_as_xapian provides Xapian support for the Ruby on Rails web framework.
- CouchDB Xapian is a search interface to CouchDB documents, that uses the Xapian Ruby bindings.
- ore.xapian is a Xapian Content Indexing/Searching Framework for Zope3