Re: Oracle interMedia as a Web Search Solution?

From: Joel R. Kallman <jkallman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:52:46 GMT
Message-ID: <3805ddc9.4021322_at_newshost.us.oracle.com>


[Quoted] [Quoted] On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:24:41 GMT, mlecza_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>Has any one used Oracle interMedia as a search engine for a website?
>
>We started playing around with it. I loaded up a table with 15,000
>records and started messing with queries - It performed great until I
>started adding ORDER BY to the query.
>
>My fear is that is will just not be fast enough to handle hundreds of
>thousands of items with the performace we are looking for.
>
>I am having trouble finding any kind of reviews (other than Oracle's
>reviews) on the product.
>
>FYI - We have Oracle 8i runing on a Sun Ultra 10 with 500MB RAM

What are you ordering by? Is it by the SCORE operator or some other [Quoted] column? What is your database parameter SORT_AREA_SIZE set to?

If your interMedia Text query is performing very fast, and your sort [Quoted] operation is slow, it may have nothing to do with interMedia Text.

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Thanks!

Joel

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The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation. Received on Thu Oct 14 1999 - 15:52:46 CEST

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