Sample Vespa Implementation for Forum Search

At VerticalScope Inc., we use Vespa for powering our search and recommendation engine for 1000+ internet forums. We're providing a sample app here to sort of mimic how we use it internally using a sample forum dataset.

This is a sample implementation of Vespa search on Forum Data. We're going to be using data from https://diy.stackexchange.com/ for this example.

Setup instructions

• Currently it's based on local Docker images. Kubernetes/Helm implementation coming up soon!
• Meanwhile, here are the docker instructions to get this up and running:

Setup Dataset in a SQL Instance

1. Run a docker instance for MySQL using the command (We know this is unsafe for now. This will change when we implement Kubernetes yaml files):

   docker run --name vespamysql  -p 3306:3306 -p 33060:33060 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=<YOUR_PASSWORD> -e MYSQL_ROOT_HOST=% -d mysql:5.7
   

2. Follow the instructions in the dataset/README.md to download and upload the https://diy.stackexchange.com/ to the MySQL docker instance

Setup Vespa docker

1. Follow the instructions in the app/README.md to setup the Vespa docker on localhost

Index forum data into Vespa

1. Ensure that the above steps (dataset in SQL and Vespa docker setup) are complete and are running properly.
2. Follow the instructions in the tools/vespaindexer/README.md to load all the forum data into Vespa docker.