[Egothor-tech] Questions about Egothor

[kenta at UDel.Edu]

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am currently working on a file management system upgrade, 
and have narrowed the choices for our indexing/searching 
solution down to Lucene and Egothor. Before I commit to 
using one or the other, I have a few questions that I 
couldn't resolve through your website. I would greatly 
appreciate if you could give a few quick answers to the 
following questions:


Does Egothor use incremental indexing?

What are Egothor's RAM/HD requirements per GB of data? Will 
it significantly slow down a system with 30GB-60GB of MS 
Office documents, during indexing or during regular use?

Is there a limitation to the amount of data that Egothor can 
handle?

Can the index file automatically update when a file is moved?

Can the index file be stored on a seperate, smaller machine?

Can Egothor search metadata? If so, can pictures be searched 
using metadata?

If a new Office version gets released, will filter files 
need to be updated?

Finally, have you stumbled across any side-by-side 
comparisons of Egothor with its competitors such as Lucene?

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Kenta Shimojo