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Comparing Oracle and Perfect Search Technologies

Author: Nathan George, Perfect Search Senior Engineer

Explores ways that Oracle 11g's full text engine and Perfect Search's indexing technology complement one another. Compares and contrasts performance of each solution on massive set of structured and unstructured data.
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Comparing Apache Lucene and Perfect Search Technologies

Author: Alexander Bychkov, DSR Researcher

Compares performance of open source Lucene technology against a Perfect Search solution under circumstances where data size makes traditional indexing solutions become impractical.

Comparing DB2 and Perfect Search Technologies

Author: Michael Stufflebeam, Perfect Search Engineer

Similar to the Oracle whitepaper; explores ways that DB2 9.7's full text engine and Perfect Search's indexing technology complement one another. Compares and contrasts performance of each solution on massive set of structured and unstructured data.

Comparing Microsoft SQL Server and Perfect Search Technologies

Author: Daniel Hardman, Perfect Search Senior Architect

Quantifies the potential value of deploying Perfect Search as a turbo-charger for MSSQL. (Note: This paper contains experimental data from tests against SQL Server 2008. After the paper was written, similar experiments were performed using SQL Server 2010, with similar results, although the text of the paper has not yet been updated.)

Comparing Microsoft SharePoint Server and Perfect Search Technologies

Author: Daniel Hardman, Perfect Search Senior Architect

Puts both SharePoint and Perfect Search through a rigorous experiment to see how they perform with worst-case data; over 1M large documents with many similar words. Both ranked and exact (boolean) searches are profiled. (Note: this paper contains experimental data from tests against SharePoint 2007. After the paper was written, similar experiments were performed using SharePoint 2010, with similar results--but the text of the paper has not yet been updated.)

Top Five Pain Points Associated with Enterprise Backup Search

Author: Daniel Hardman, Perfect Search Senior Architect

Perfect Search identifies the top five pain points associated with enterprise backup search. While the Perfect Search Appliance enables users to find the information they need when they need it, other leading enterprise search appliances fail to find files in the backup black hole.

Solving Search Problems with Perfect Search

Author: Stephen E. Arnold, Founder, Beyond Search Research and Arnold Information Technology

Perfect Search has developed a method that permits indexing multiple, sometimes geographically separate databases, with a single search engine. The innovations at Perfect Search permit high-speed retrieval, drastically reduced hardware footprints, and extensive customization.

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