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Conference orarep::nomahs::rdb_60

Title:	Oracle Rdb - Still a strategic database for DEC on Alpha AXP!
Notice:	RDB_60 is archived, please use RDB_70..
Moderator:	NOVA::SMITHISON

Created:	Fri Mar 18 1994
Last Modified:	Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5118
Total number of notes:	28246

5026.0. "Rdb search engine" by M5::DGROBERT () Thu Feb 13 1997 12:40

    A customer send the following to me.  He did not state what version of
    Rdb he is using, but I suspect some flavor of 6.0 or 6.1.   What would
    be suggested for those versions?  If he were to go to 7.0, would the
    web agent be the engine he should use?  Thanks.
    
    
    Customer statement:
    
    We have developed a product based on OpenVMS Alpha that uses an Rdb
    database to  
    store and distribute market data across the trading floor.  This
    application  
    has an interface to our network distribution mechanism and an interface
    to Rdb (SQL).    
     
    We are currently investigate the feasibility of a historical news
    database, we  
    can currently provide the ability for word searching on news headlines
    of a limited length, but,  with our current technology intelligent word
    searching on news stories would be impractical.   
     
    Do Oracle ( or any of its contacts ) have a text search engine product
    that  would allow us to store and retrieve news stories ??   
    We have the application to distribute the data - we just need the back
    end engine.  Note that a key part of our requirements is the need to update
    any indexes to the data in realtime as the news arrives.  
     
    Any suggestions or pointers would be extremely useful.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
5026.1		DUCATI::LASTOVICA	Is it possible to be totally partial?	`Thu Feb 13 1997 12:52`	5
	the 'best' way to do word searching of free-form text is to index each word and list all of the locations of the word in the database. STARS, ALTAVISTA, etc. use this sort of technique. At present with Rdb, one would have to write code to do it; Rdb doesn't have this sort of index at present.
5026.2		NOVA::SMITHI	Don't understate or underestimate Rdb!	`Thu Feb 13 1997 12:55`	4
	But Oracle does sell a text search engine called ConText. Ask you Oracle sales folks for more information. Ian
5026.3		AVMSV1::EKREISLE	Erich Kreisler	`Fri Feb 14 1997 04:45`	5
	Ian, As far as I know context does not work with Rdb, did this change ? erich
5026.4		NOVA::SMITHI	Don't understate or underestimate Rdb!	`Fri Feb 14 1997 06:48`	10
	~As far as I know context does not work with Rdb, did this change ? no this hasn't changed. I was just answering this question from .0 ~ Do Oracle ( or any of its contacts ) have a text search engine product ~ that would allow us to store and retrieve news stories ?? Yes Oracle does, it is ConText. ian