06 December 2006
ferret : search engine library in Ruby inspired by Lucene
Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written for Ruby. It is inspired by Apache Lucene Java project.
Solr : open source enterprise search server based on Lucene
by 5 othersSolr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat.
Sphinx - Free open-source SQL full-text search engine
by 3 othersSphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2.
Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or from an XML pipe.
03 November 2006
Aduna - Products
A company developping OOS for professional search, semantic middleware, and developer products
Aperture Framework : a Java framework for getting data and metadata
by 1 otherAperture is a Java framework for extracting and querying full-text content and metadata from various information systems (e.g. file systems, web sites, mail boxes) and the file formats (e.g. documents, images) occurring in these systems.
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