I'm running Harvest on HP-UX, but the essence process in the Gatherer takes too much memory. This bug only arises when your Broker expires objects, and a full indexing has not occured recently. Query returned 0 objects. Query returned 0 objects. Harvest provides a more scalable architecture than any of these systems, in terms of network bandwidth, server load, and disk space.
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SOIF's support for arbitrary data means it can be used for more complex search applications, such as image and audio searching. Harvest provides an automated means of populating indexes with structured, high-quality indexing information. Harvest can be used to provide the indexing data for these systems. We are currently working with several commercial search and retrieval vendors, to integrate support for their engines into Harvest. Overall, the expressive power of Harvest subsumes the other existing distributed indexing systems.