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LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank
- veb 15y agoJust got the email. Congrats guys! You're one of my favorite start-ups, and I'm really glad to see you guys succeed. When's the party? :-)
- rksprst 15y agoGreat to see a fellow startup get acquired. But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will be open sourced. Or at least keep your service up until then. This is great for the IndexTank team, but screws all of their customers (of which I am one).
- nostromo 15y agoSuper happy for you guys, congrats!! :) Super not happy to find a new search solution in the next six months. :(
- rksprst 15y agoYep, founders+investors win. Customers lose. I guess that's the new way to run a business. Exit > customers.
- diego 15y agoI am honestly and seriously committed to help our customers as much as time permits. I don't want this to be another "cloud provider gets acquired, users unhappy." Part of our team will be dedicated to personally helping out each and every one of our customers find the best solution over the next six months. Ideally we'll get other providers to implement the IndexTank API for a seamless transition. I will post updates about this.
- nachopg 15y agoIt is not like that. Check our FAQ out: https://indextank.com/documentation/faq2 https://indextank.com/documentation/faq2. We're talking to several interested parties who would like to take over the service.
- nostromo 15y agoThanks for doing the right thing, we've really enjoyed the service. I'll look forward to the source release -- maybe we'll bring search back in house. Again -- congrats! :)
- mariano 15y agoMuy contento por la noticia :)
- pibefision 15y agome sumo! felicitaciones Diego & Team.
- jhandl 15y agoGracias! :)
- devinfoley 15y agoI suppose this means that LinkedIn is moving away from Lucene NRT Search?
- nzadrozny 15y agoCongrats to the LinkedIn and IndexTank folks for the successful exit/acquisition. Apologies for tooting my own horn here, but for anyone wondering about alternatives for hosted search, there's always Apache Solr and fizx's and my hosted service at http://websolr.com/ http://websolr.com/. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and going on two years old. And we intend to be around for a while! Feel free to hit me up with questions!
- nostromo 15y agoYou list Java as supported on this page, but the link 404s. http://websolr.com/guides/solr/clients http://websolr.com/guides/solr/clients Do you guys support Java integration?
- cedrichurst 15y agoI don't work for websolr, but I do quite a bit of work with Apache Solr. I'd imagine Java integration is supported through the native Java client, http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solrj http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solrj, which is maintained by the Solr team. There are also a number of Solr client libraries for Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. All searches against a Solr index take place over HTTP through an RPC interface, so building an API for a specific language relatively straightforward.
- nzadrozny 15y agoThanks for the heads up on that 404, I'll take care of that. See cedrichurst's comment for what I ought to be linking to.
- jhdavids8 15y agoI contemplated websolr recently but went with IndexTank simply due to the free storage they provided. It's nice to test out the service in dev mode to see if it's a good fit before committing to paying for it. Any chance Websolr offers an option like this down the road? Plus, Solr just seemed to struggle with geo search. I used Sunspot as my search interface and had to specify a minimum precision of 6 (supposedly a 6+ mile bounding box) to get any results, even those that were less than a mile away. I know Solr uses geohashing, but it just appeared wildly inaccurate...at least for me.
- omfg 15y agoCan someone list some alternatives to IndexTank? We rely on them pretty heavily and this is going to leave us, and I imagine quite a few other companies, in a bind.
- nzadrozny 15y agoIndexTank have already said that they'll open source their code so others can take up the mantle. Another alternative is the excellent open source Apache Solr search engine, discussed elsewhere in this thread.
- hkarthik 15y agoSphinx and Solr are both options to consider, and there are few Search as a Service providers that you can use. Flying Sphinx and WebSolr are two of the more popular ones. We use Flying Sphinx and it's worked out well.
- PabloOsinaga 15y agoI am really psyched to see IndexTank open source their technology (as notes mentions). Very intrigued to know which specific components of their technology will they open source - and how they fit within linkedin sna different projects http://sna-projects.com/sna/ http://sna-projects.com/sna/ and lucene / other open source projects at large. Really curious to know if any IndexTank / linkedin team member reading.
- jhandl 15y agoI'm reading. :)
- PabloOsinaga 15y agoSo what specifically are you guys open sourcing and how does that complement existing open source search technologies like Lucene and the things that the folks over at Linkedin SNA have open sourced (e.g., Bobo, Sensei)?
- jhandl 15y agoIt is our intention to open-source what the next provider will need to keep the service running. It's too early to tell what that exactly will be or how it will complement other SNA projects.
- iag 15y agoCongrats to IndexTank team!
- mark_l_watson 15y ago"IndexTank says that LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months" So, the Heroku plugin goes away and customers like Reddit have to make other arrangements. Interesting that they would shut down a viable business - I don't understand that.
- justinchen 15y agoWow, we were thinking about integrating with IndexTank. Glad we didn't.
- espeed 15y agoYeah, we had decided to go that way too, but now I don't know. Congrats to the team, and I'll be interested to see what they open source.
- alnayyir 15y agoSolr or ElasticSearch are the best options, depending on your specific needs. ES if you need horizontal scaling, Solr if you need a specific and technical feature.
- jhandl 15y agoThe Heroku plugin will not go away, neither will the IndexTank service if everything goes as planned.
- skmurphy 15y agoPre-acquisition and post-acquisition are two different worlds. Unless there is a direct connection to LinkedIn's business model it's hard to believe IndexTank's offerings won't be radically transformed in the next year.
- herbivore 15y agoCongrats to the team! That said, it proves once again that entrepreneurs should not feel discouraged by the presence of competitors in their field. Continue to build your own great product. Your biggest, most successful competitor may be the next one to fail for whatever reason or, hopefully for them, have an early exit which clears the field for your product/service.
- diego 15y agoI want to believe that my own post is more interesting than the TC article :) http://blog.indextank.com/1221/indextank-linkedin-acquires-indextank/ http://blog.indextank.com/1221/indextank-linkedin-acquires-i...
- ra 15y agoCongrats! If you have any customers in APac you need taken care of, drop me an email.
- alperakgun 15y agocongrats indextank, i always believed you had a very good business case. But can someone explain me why Linked-in is interested in such a business?
- foxylad 15y agoDarn. I wanted to integrate IndexTank into our service next week, now I need to look at alternatives. The sooner you can confirm what happens next, the better.
- diego 15y agoEmail support at indextank dot com, happy to help you out.
- wslh 15y agoIndexTank acquired by LinkedIn, Sapus Media's Cocos2D acquired by Zynga, two examples of excelent and very focused Argentinian products. Hope to see more from the south in the near future. It shows that there is light and a lot of value beyond software factories. Congrats to Diego!