Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: BLOBS (was: 500'000 records)
From: vsharma@idicl1.idi.battelle.org (Vijay)
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:17:14 EST
Organization: IDI-Dublin
Nntp-Posting-User: raudabaugh

In article <1993Jan5.014213.27040@news.arc.nasa.gov>, lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
> In article <19085@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
> |> > Hugh LaMaster writes:
> |> >                                    With 30K records, you are dealing
> |> > |> with blobs outside the normal record structure; you can run greater
> |> > |> risks.
> |> >
> |> > Is there a "correct" way to deal with this problem yet?  It can show
> |> > up in surprisingly simple DBMS applications, such as where you want to
> |> > search through a bunch of trouble calls for matches to a particular
> |> > problem.  1-2 years ago, when I inquired to this newsgroup, there was
> |> > no RDBMS that could handle text searches efficiently.  (Efficiently,
> |> > that is, compared to a text processing/retrieval system.)  Is this still
> |> > the case?
> |> 
> |> Seems to be still the case, among the mainstream database products.
> |> You might have some luck with middle-users (as opposed to end-users)
> |> such as those providing db's for, say, the publishing industry ---
> |> a wonderful source of solutions to problems that I, thank goodness,
> |> seldom see 
> 
> Who are the vendors of this "middle-user" software?  
> 
> What RDBMS's do they use as the database part (or, do they do their own?)?  
> 
> What are the capabilities on the text side?
> 
> Is there a newsgroup on this, or a place where technical people and users
> of such products post?
> 
> -- 
>   Hugh LaMaster, M/S 233-9,     UUCP:      ames!lamaster
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Please also see Note 13063.

BASISplus Document Database is designed to manipulate text from ground up.
BASISplus has the capability of searching on both "Structured" and 
"Unstructured" fields simultaneously.

e.g. Search for all documents by Vijay Sharma that contain the word -
     "BASISplus".

Additionally the database handles SGML documents hence maintaining the 
document structure as well as giving the user the capability of searching
at the component level of the documents.


-- 
Regards,

Vijay

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