clindh@Stride.COM (Christer Lindh) (06/10/88)
I'm looking for free-text databases with extended search-functions
running under UNIX (no, grep is not enough..), both public domain and
commercial.
If you know about any good products/programs, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
--
clindh@stride.COM :: The Fittest Shall Survive
Stride Product Group, R&D :: Yet The Unfit May Live.
MicroSage Computer Systems, Inc. ::
Reno, NV, (702) 322-6868 :: We Must Repeat ! paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater) (06/15/88)
In article <799@stride.Stride.COM> clindh@Stride.COM (Christer Lindh) writes: >I'm looking for free-text databases with extended search-functions >-- > clindh@stride.COM :: The Fittest Shall Survive > Stride Product Group, R&D :: Yet The Unfit May Live. >MicroSage Computer Systems, Inc. :: > Reno, NV, (702) 322-6868 :: We Must Repeat ! We've been working with and developing applications in a product called BRS/Search for free-text work. It runs under Unix and Xenix, as well as other mainframe operating systems (there's even a DOS version!), and has a very powerful search engine. It features a menu generation language, print-time formatting, full ANSI Thesaurus, image storage (yes! scanning handwriting too!), foreign language support, data comp- ression, etc. It's just a simple inverted file, but it indexes EVERY word (except the common ones like 'the' or others you specify), and it is VERY FAST. It's written in C, and there are ports for dozens of machines. The theoretical limits are 16,777,215 documents per database, each document can have up to 64kb fields (or 'paragraphs') - and each field can be variable length up to 64kb long! My only criticism is its weakness in computation. It's really text only, although numbers from tables can easily be exported to, e.g. a spreadsheet.