Seeing the results of Corax in production

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Corax was released just under a year ago, and we are seeing more customers deploying that to production. During a call with a customer, we noticed the following detail:

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Let me explain what we are seeing here. The two indexes are the same, operating on the same set of documents. The only difference between those indexes is the indexing engine.

What is really amazing here is that Corax is able to index in 3:21 minutes what Lucene takes 17:15 minutes to index. In other words, Corax is more than 5 times faster than Lucene in a real world scenario.

And these news make me very happy.