C2c E-commerce Site's Search System Design

From system architecture perspective,this article analyzed how to measure a searching system's efficiency and extendibility. By comparing international website and native website,native website still has long gap to international website.This gap not only existed in technique details,but also existed in architecture design.The article represented an architecture which was referenced by a leading international architecture.Besides,the architecture was made some adaption and optimization for the eCommerce.The searching system could be divided to two sections, indexing and searching.Indexing section introduced the process of index creation. First, the Search Feeder grabbed item information from item database and put it into search database. The message system got the notification of the item information change,then it sent the message to search engine.Search engine got the item change information and index it.After the item was indexed, the item could be found by keyword searching. The article introduced the basic structure of the index.Some common used search methods were also mentioned. Some special search method required index support.The article also covered these special cases.Not only the system framework but also sub-systems were discussed in detail. All the sub-systems were loose couple.Through framework designing, all the sub-systems were united as one piece. The article didn't define the implementation language and the interface between sub-systems.It left more space for extension. The whole system can be adapted by developers easily.