Google Appliances are very good at doing exactly what the Google site does- indexing unstructured content and returning fairly basic results (ranked, of course) very quickly. However, the $30K (two year) license only covers 500K documents, so you would be looking at the much more expensive enterprise class machines, or you would have to find some way to split up your content into different machines- a sort-of Wolfpack cluster for your search engine. The Mini, BTW, indexes far fewer documents than its larger sibling.
You might try Apache Nutch, it is a fully implemented search system built on top of Lucene. Rob Munn www.funkymojo.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Mineer Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CFCDev] Google style search for Database Content I have a MSSQL server database with approx 2 million records. I would really like a simple 'Google Like' interface search for my clients that would search for the given value in all fields of all those records. I have been looking a the Google Search Appliance, which has direct database indexing built in, but it is VERY expensive (min $30K). I have also seen the 'Google Mini' whichosts less ($2K) but does not do the direct database indexing. Instead I have seen the reccomendation that I build a dynamic page with URL links to each record. Would this work with sow many records involved? Has anyone seen or does anyone have any ideas on making the entire contects of a large database easily searchable? TIA, -- David Mineer Jr --------------------- The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer. ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (wwwcfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
