The Stringex Problem: Client-Side Indexing in Clouds

Hadoop and Lucene-style indexing all sound nice, until you stumble upon a new practical usecase (read: problem) and need to build a webapp which needs indexing on the client side (read: browser) in realtime (read:continuously). That's when you run into the Stringex Problem. Hint: When you need to access the data you keep on the cloud, you need to mind the size of the hole through the membrane (read: API capability).