Re: Oracle Text 10g... or NOT

2006-10-17 Thread Kuassi Mensah
Right, as described in my book, The Oracle database furnishes an embedded Java run time, which can be > used by database components such as XDB, *inter*Media, Spatial, Text, > XQuery, and so on. Oracle Text leverages the XML DB framework, which > includes a protocol server and a

Re: Oracle Text 10g... or NOT

2006-10-17 Thread Greg Colvin
Another option is to run Lucene inside your Oracle instance using it's JVM. This might help with combining Lucene and Oracle search results. On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Chris Lu wrote: Several additional reasons I can think of: 1) Being able to control the algorithsm, for example, 1.1)

Re: Oracle Text 10g... or NOT

2006-10-17 Thread Chris Lu
Several additional reasons I can think of: 1) Being able to control the algorithsm, for example, 1.1) applying your own analyzer to a field. 1.2) control your own way of ranking 2) De-couple your data model from the searching Searching directly on your data model may not be ideal. You may wan

RE: Oracle Text 10g... or NOT

2006-10-17 Thread Bryzek.Michael
We used Oracle interMedia/Text for search within the RDMS beginning with oracle 8i through oracle 10g. Two primary reasons we switched to solr/lucene: * We saw random errors (< .1% of the time) when users ran full text search. We believe the source of this error occurred during index update as