redsip (reds-index-prefix)

This project was forked from reds, a light-weight Redis search for node.js (https://github.com/visionmedia/reds).

Originally, the reds does not index the prefix of words. The articles that have word tomato can not be found by search query tom. Users need to input the full query tomato to found them.

This project aimed to solve this constraint. Users can query articles that contains word tomato by using search query tom. It is more suitable for mobile web application, or mobile application that is hard to type a full word

Installation

  $ npm install redsip

Example

The first thing you'll want to do is create a Search instance, which allows you to pass a key, used for namespacing within Redis so that you may have several searches in the same db.

var search = redsip.createSearch('pets');

redsip acts against arbitrary numeric or string based ids, so you could utilize this library with essentially anything you wish, even combining data stores. The following example just uses an array for our "database", containing some strings, which we add to redsip by calling Search#index() padding the body of text and an id of some kind, in this case the index.

var strs = [];
strs.push('Tobi wants four dollars');
strs.push('Tobi only wants $4');
strs.push('Loki is really fat');
strs.push('Loki, Jane, and Tobi are ferrets');
strs.push('Manny is a cat');
strs.push('Luna is a cat');
strs.push('Mustachio is the Ferrari');

strs.forEach(function(str, i){ search.index(str, i); });

To perform a query against redsip simply invoke Search#query() with a string, and pass a callback, which receives an array of ids when present, or an empty array otherwise.

search
  .query(query = 'fer')
  .end(function(err, ids){
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log('Search results for "%s":', query);
    ids.forEach(function(id){
      console.log('  - %s', strs[id]);
    });
    process.exit();
  });

Search results for "fer":
  - Loki, Jane, and Tobi are ferrets
  - Mustachio is the Ferrari

By default redsip performs an intersection of the search words, the following example would yield the following output:

search
  .query(query = 'tobi dollars')
  .end(function(err, ids){
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log('Search results for "%s":', query);
    ids.forEach(function(id){
      console.log('  - %s', strs[id]);
    });
    process.exit();
  });

Search results for "tobi dollars":
  - Tobi wants four dollars

We can tweak redsip to perform a union by passing either "union" or "or" to redsip.search() after the callback, indicating that any of the constants computed may be present for the id to match.

search
  .query(query = 'tobi dollars')
  .end(function(err, ids){
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log('Search results for "%s":', query);
    ids.forEach(function(id){
      console.log('  - %s', strs[id]);
    });
    process.exit();
  }, 'or');

The intersection would yield the following since only one string contains both "Tobi" and "dollars".

Search results for "tobi dollars":
  - Tobi wants four dollars
  - Tobi only wants $4
  - Loki, Jane, and Tobi are ferrets

API

redsip.createSearch(key)
Search#index(text, id[, fn])
Search#remove(id[, fn]);
Search#query(text, fn[, type]);

Examples:

var search = redsip.createSearch('misc');
search.index('Foo bar baz', 'abc');
search.index('Foo bar', 'bcd');
search.remove('bcd');
search.query('foo bar').end(function(err, ids){});

About

Currently redsip strips stop words and applies the metaphone and porter stemmer algorithms to the remaining words before mapping the constants in Redis sets. For example the following text:

Tobi is a ferret and he only wants four dollars

Converts to the following constant map:

{
  Tobi: 'TB',
  ferret: 'FRT',
  wants: 'WNTS',
  four: 'FR',
  dollars: 'DLRS'
}

This also means that phonetically similar words will match, for example "stefen", "stephen", "steven" and "stefan" all resolve to the constant "STFN". redsip takes this further and applies the porter stemming algorithm to "stem" words, for example "counts", and "counting" become "count".

Consider we have the following bodies of text:

Tobi really wants four dollars
For some reason tobi is always wanting four dollars

The following search query will then match both of these bodies, and "wanting", and "wants" both reduce to "want".

tobi wants four dollars

Benchmarks

A tiny body of text is currently indexed in ~13ms, or 76 ops/s.

A small 1.6kb body of text is currently indexed in ~60ms, or 16 ops/s (x10 slower than original reds).

Medium bodies such as 40kb operate around 6 ops/s, or 166ms (equal with the original reds).

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn <[email protected]>

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