Coveo: Beyond a Billion Documents
June 3, 2008
Most licensees of enterprise search systems don’t know how many documents the system must index. Coveo can handle more than 1,000,000,000 documents.
Even fewer search system licensees know that many enterprise search systems have hard limits on how many documents a system can index before choking, sometimes expiring without warning. For example, Microsoft SharePoint has a hard limit significantly below the Coveo billion document target. Microsoft acquired Fast Search & Transfer, in part, to have a work around for this scaling problem.
Coveo’s G2B Information Access solutions deliver security, relevant results, and very strong ease of use. You can “snap in” Coveo to SharePoint, Documentum, and IBM FileNet environments without custom coding. For more information, navigate to the Coveo Web site. A free trial is available.
Stephen Arnold, June 3, 2008
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These hard limits on numbers of documents are usually due to 32-bit variables…thus it seems odd that Coveo doesn’t say it copes with 2 to the power 32, i.e. just over 4 billion items. Of course, you’ve also got to assume linear scalability in terms of indexing performance, memory requirements etc. which is harder than it sounds.
None of this is particularly difficult really – the Xapian open source engine coped with half a billion web pages eight years ago, running on around 30 servers, and could easily cope with a few billion now – in fact, with a single code change it could manage 2 to the power 64, which should be enough for a while!
Good point. I like the company’s French speaking Québec City engineers. I know that one of their team looks at my Web log postings. Your comment will reach the company, which–sadly–doesn’t reply to my emails. It must be my lousy French.
Stephen Arnold, June 5, 2008
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