Thunderstone Appliance Adds Muscle

June 10, 2009

Thunderstone has been a long-time player in the enterprise and Web search market. The company was either the first or among the first to offer a search appliance. The company’s Thunderstone Search Appliance is now in Version 7. This new version adds a number of features. You can get more information on each at the Thunderstone Web site here. In addition to a performance boost, the company has spiffed up its interface. Other changes include:

Enhancement of federated search. Thunderstone sometimes refers to federated search as metasearch. The idea is to present results from different collections of content.
Better support for Unicode queries
A method for indexing the content of MySQL databases.

The Thunderstone Appliance offers more dials and knobs for licensees to adjust. Some appliance vendors “lock out” licensees from certain administrative functions. Thunderstone makes tuning and hit boosting much easier than some vendors’ systems.

You can read an interview with the president of Thunderstone here. The interview dates from April 2008, but it contains useful insights into Thunderstone’s approach to search and content processing.

Stephen Arnold, June 10, 2009

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Enterprise, News, Search, Technology, Text processing

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