Search Tools Product Report

Plumtree Portal Search Server

(formerly Ripfire Ignite Search Engine)

Product Information

Platform: Unix; Windows NT / 2000; requires Java 2
Price: contact company

• Now integrated with the Plumtree Portal and Content Management Systems
• Sophisticated extraction of structured text from SQL databases via JDBC: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and Informix.
• Crawlers for web sites, Lotus Notes, Unix file servers, Documentum, DOCS Open
• Web Services connectors for Microsoft Exchange, NT File Servers
• Indexes XML files with hierarchical and repeated tags.
• Indexes HTML and text files, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF, and over 200 additional document formats.
• Uses Inxight LinguistX software for stemming and tokenization in Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. (April 2003)
• Real-time incremental index updating.
• Customizable synonym lists for products and industry-specific terms.
• Searching recognizes Boolean operators and number ranges.
• Parametric and field-based queries available.
• Includes stemming and spellchecking.
• Fast performance, 110 queries per second per CPU.
• Document-level security features include ACL information, domain and group mapping.
• Integrates personalization to improve results rankings.
• Automatic categorization of search results.
• Hit highlighting of matching text.
• Statistical analysis of search behavior.
• Takes advantage of multiple CPUs.
• For high-availability, can use multiple servers in a pool arrangement.
• Works with J2EE application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, and ATG Dynamo.
• Administration via a Java / browser interface

Page Modified 2003-06-20