Tom:
It's not only inexpensive, from
http://www.webest.dk/eng/host.asp
it looks like it's free to ISPs
Please do send me the code you offered
for CFOBJECT, and anything else I need
to get started (that you can part with).
Thanks! It looks interesting!
best, paul
At 01:10 PM 8/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>A product I use for full-text indexing and searching is called textdb
>(www.webest.dk)
>
>It's a small and cheap product. It's not as straight-forward to use as
>mssql fulltext, but it's furociously quicker than mssql or oracle (and
>presumably verity with comparisons of it being slower than sql7).
>
>I have a db with 500,000 records containing descriptions ranging from 5k to
>1 meg of data, and ANY search I do is finished within half a second. I can
>do a wildcard "a" search, or a very complex conditional query using "sounds
>like" operators, and still get my results back in that amount of time. Not
>sure if version 4 is out yet, but version 3.whatever didn't support phrases,
>the new version does (and is just as quick as before).
>
>Building the full text index also blows away the competition. It's not as
>rich in features as teh others, and has a couple other limitations - but raw
>speed (both building, updating, and retrieving) blows ms sql and oracle
>(context stuff and intermedia) out of the water. I can build an index in
>about 20 minutes on multiple fields against the 500k record database - this
>is from scratch.
>
>It works as a com object, so you need to use cfobject (which I have sample
>code for it) - but this still works very quickly.
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