I have used intermedia in the past and found that it had a few advantages and disadvantages compared to Lucene.
Advantages of Intermedia 1) Content in database so can be easily accessed and fielded out with many tools 2) Can combine text queries with SQL queries 3) Has richer support for themes 4) Supports term expansion and contraction Now items 3 and 4 of Intermedia advantages can be added as Features to Lucene, but are not currently. Advantages of Lucene 1) Search Speed (intermedia was very very slow for us when search full text - also I run Lucene on a single processor sun an I ran Intermedia on a dual processor box with a RAID) 2) Index integrity (When we indexed with Intermedia it would fail 1 out of every 5 or 6 times) 3) Indexing Speed (Indexing was about 2/3 slower on Intermedia) 4) File based (It is easy to distribute a Lucene index on multiple computers, where Intermedia you had to connect to one mondy machine) 5) Cost 6) Support (the Lucene mailling list provide much better support than Oracle) 7) Personal skill level (To run Intermedia I would recommend having someone knowledgeable as a DBA) 8) Built in QueryParser (Intermedia does not come with a way to parse the query string into an Intermedia Query - you have to write your own). Some of this issues may have been specific to my situation, but that's my experience. --Peter On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 05:22 AM, Mariusz Dziewierz wrote: > Nader S. Henein wrote: >> We had to do the same thing, we moved from an Oracle Intermedia >> search to >> Lucene (much better) the data is stored in the database. > > Could you give some reasons which lead you to conclusion that Lucene > is much better than Oracle Intermedia in terms of searching data > stored in database? I'm currently reviewing technologies related to > text mining and I am very curious about your motives because I haven't > opportunity to evaluate both technologies yet. > > -- > Mariusz Dziewierz > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
