IB 2.0 W3 (WebCat)

BSn's interBasis IB 2.0 Webcat combines the power of the IB 2.0 fielded fulltext search engine with a powerfull configurable form driven HTML interface ("Webfront") designed for both the neophyte and power researcher.

IB 2.0 News Free Betatest downloads for the IB 2.5 WebCat. Netscape has acquired NewHoo, a topical directory that uses search technologies and open software developed by BSn, Etymon, Island Edge Research and A/WWW Enterprises. See: CNET News.com. BSn and Etymon Systems Inc. have announced freIB (pronounced "Fur-eye-Bee") a free special edition of the IB 2.x search engine for Linux x86 and SPARC Solaris platforms. Watch this space!.

• High Performance: Fast Index, Append, Modify and Search.
  • Typical Indexing speed (depending upon hardware) between 200 MB to beyond 1 GB/hour (e.g. indexing rates of 500 MB/hour measured on a 350 Mhz P-II system running Linux).
  • One can quickly add new records to the database ("append") without need for re-indexing.
  • One can quickly delete or modify records in the database without need for re-indexing.
  • Excellent I/O behaviour for high TPM rates.
  • Suitable for CDROM and heirarchical storage.
• Scalable from low cost PC hardware to Enterprize class server clusters.
• Designed to support Gigabytes of data.
• Does not require stopwords for indexing.
  • Can Search for each and every word in a document (e.g. for searches like "To be or not to be", "Vitamin A" or "the C++ programming language").
  • Stopwords "may" be specified during indexing or search-- even different lists and also dependent upon language.
• National language support.
• Multinational Character Set support.
• Supports SGML/XML and over 50 other native generic document formats.
• The structure of the document can be used to qualify the search.
• Document structure in used in most all doctypes: not just SGML or HTML. If the document type/format has a structure (which most formats do) then this structure is available.
• Automatic and transparent detection of implied hyperlinks.
  •  References, URLs, Internet mail addresses, record links, external containers etc.
  • "On-the-fly" with late hyperlink bindings:
    • Hypertext conversion and link detection occurs at runtime.
• Full HTML presentation of all document types ("on-the-fly").
• Structured Text (ASCII) presentation of all document types ("on-the-fly").
• Record-type MIME bindings to launch applications.
• State-of-the-art search models: from boolean to relevant feedback.
  • Fully Fielded research.
  • Boolean operators: And, Or, Not, Xor, AndNot, Near, Before, After, Adj and unary Not.
  • Term and phrase (literal) search.
  • Scan search (what some call "word wheels") to allow users to search for "search terms" (even field level).
  • User selectable term and phrase weighting.
  • Phoenetic, Case dependant, Right and Left Truncated, glob and other search attributes.
  • "Smart" Date range search.
  • RPN and Infix notation advanced query.
  • Researcher configurable number of sentences as well as with or without advanced query input boxes
  • Drag-and-drop target for fulltext Relevant Feedback.
  • Field level Relevant Feedback.
  • Named result sets.
  • Inter-session result sets.
  • User selectable sort of result sets: Chronologically or by Relevance.
• Multimedia-Aware:
  • Models support search and retrieval of multimedia and binary data streams.
• Small indexes: typically requires a space overhead of less than 60% (or as little as 1/3) the size of the source.
• Workflow Aware:
  • Robust Synchronous Update/Append: supports simultaneous indexing and search during indexing...
  • Full access control: User, group, host, network etc.
• Year 2000 compliant? IB 2.x is Option ONE Year-2000 Compliant. See the BSn IB 2.x Year 2000 Compliance Statement.
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  • Uses available browser features.
  • Support for a wide-range of browsers See: Specific Web Browsers and our Service.
• Support for generic CGI as well NaviSoft/GNNPress Web Server and Netscape Commercial Server native APIs.
• Access also via Z39.50 protocol.

In Preparation:

• Multi-threaded Search.
• Result caching.
• Numerical, geospatial and other object oriented searching mechanisms.
• More Native doctypes: support for Word Processor formats.
• More Presentation formats: RTF and other popular formats.
• Distributed objects (CORBA).
• Java aplets to support sophisticated context search.

Other Information

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