[WEB4LIB] text search engines for Oracle?

[John Little]

Avi:

I have two suggestions for you.

1)  Oracle reportedly has some advance full-text search and retrieval
capabilities.  These were first developed as an Oracle integration product
known as ConText.  Later (ver. 8.i) the ConText group worked on something
called InterMedia which is supposed to be improved and part of the 8.i
suite.  I don't know how well these tools will work for you but they may be
worth looking into.

Disclaimer: I'm not an Oracle user and am not familiar with the details of
ConText or InterMedia.

2) The Texis (TEXt Information System) RDBMS is SQL compliant and
specializes in full-text indexing and retrieval.  Relevance ranking and
multiword searching are some of its finer and standard features.  Whether
you can integrate it with Oracle is probably up to your own ingenuity.  More
info at www.thunderstone.com

Disclaimer:  when you say "cheaper"?  Well, it's all relative.

/
John.Little at Duke.edu
Web Development Librarian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Avi Rappoport
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 4:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] text search engines for Oracle?
>
>
> I don't know if any of you can help, but you know more about text
> search than most folks!
>
> A client of mine is running an Oracle database and wants a good search
> engine that knows about multiword searching and relevance ranking.  It's
> not huge now (20,000 records) and interMedia seems like overkill.
>
> Are there any lighter-weight and cheaper alternatives that will let us
> customize the results layout and integrate with field-based SQL queries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Avi
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