Monash Information Services -- Text Indexing and Search Engines Overview

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Text Indexing and Search Engines

Integrating Text into an Enterprise IT Environment

This presentation gives a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in integrating text data into an enterprise IT environment. Subjects covered include:

How text indexing and search work – and what they assume
Fitting text into a traditional IT context
Sorting out your text application needs
Key considerations in text application architecture

Text Search: General-Purpose DBMS vs. Specialty Search Engines

For most text search applications, we favor using DBMS as the underpinnings, rather than specialized search engines. DBMS are competitive with search engines’ text-specific features, and superior in manageability. This implementation choice also supports tight relational/text integration, which is important in a surprisingly broad range of applications.

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