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- Functional Characteristics - Summary
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- The SearchManager/2 product provides a full-text indexing and retrieval
- software technology. It features very rapid retrieval of relevant
- information from large collections of documents using any combination
- of words as search terms.
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- Unlike database management systems, SearchManager/2 does not require
- that data be rigorously structured into interrelated files, records
- and fields before it can be accessed.
- Instead, it operates by building a comprehensive index of all significant
- words or terms that appear in an arbitrary collection of documents
- (inverted index).
- Any combination of these terms can then be used to find relevant
- documents very rapidly, with search terms highlighted in the retrieved
- text.
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- Since SearchManager/2 can search unstructured information in its native
- form, it is ideal for situations where flexible access to textual
- information is required.
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- Distinguishing features of this product include very high performance
- indexing and retrieval with low index storage overhead, the ability
- to access word-processing documents in their original native format
- and a very rich set of retrieval capabilities including word, phrase,
- wildcard and proximity searching with full Boolean logic.
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