Index Engines and Performance Data
August 15, 2009
Index Engines, http://www.indexengines.com/, is touting “Unmatched Speed. Unprecedented Scale.” for its 3.0 platform. The platform function discovers full content and metadata of LAN data, classifies it, indexes it (up to a billion files and e-mail!), and sets up a streamlined, “blazing fast” search: one terabyte per hour using a single indexing node. That gets an impressed quack. There’s a spiffy white paper at http://www.indexengines.com/LP_IE_speed.htm that gives configuration details and an explanation of how they create that speed. There’s a pdf brochure on the LAN engine at http://www.indexengines.com/download/LAN_Engine_DS.pdf. Here’s our question: Is the evidence reliable, repeatable, and accurate? Speed certainly is one of the top watchwords in search today, but so are consistency and relevance. The proof is in the tasty giblets, not the pretty feathers.
Jessica Bratcher, August 18, 2009
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