Evaluating the Performance of Distributed Architectures for Information Retrieval Using a Variety of Workloads

摘要

The information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to effectively access these collections, information retrieval (IR) systems must provide coordinated, concurrent, and distributed access. In this article, we explore how to achieve scalable performance in a distributed system For collection sizes ranging from 1GB to 128GB.