Well, the gig is out. What I have been working on for the past several months is now alive. ElasticSearch is an open source, distributed, RESTful search engine. More info about it can be found in the “\”You Know, for Search\ blog post. There is also a nice overview page.
How does that relates to Compass? Good question, which deserves a proper blog post. I will be maintaining another blog just for ElasticSearch, and also there is a twitter user, you should follow.
Enjoy!