Endeca: Perfect in the Eyes of CTOLabs, Just Perfect

December 13, 2010

CTOlabs has a write up titled “Endeca’s MDEX Engine Review” that finds no fault with the Endeca system whatsoever. The system is glorified by describing the MDEX features and what popular websites use it, i.e. Walmart.com, ESPN.com, and HomeDepot.com.

“Endeca uses a powerful and revolutionary semi-structured database to provide advanced capabilities for high-performance search and information access across the entire spectrum of structured and unstructured enterprise data. The MDEX engine mixes search, navigation and exploration to dig and guide the user to discover.”

Endeca advertises the MDEX engine to have the following features: integrated API, semi-structured database, generational data updates, security, performance and scalability, end-to-end web services support, and extensibility. This is interesting, because most systems we test struggle with petascale dataflows, connecting to such content sources as the i2 ANB format, query response time under heavy load, and generating revenue. Perhaps these issues are not drawbacks in the informed eyes of the CTOLabs’ crew?

Guess Endeca is the leader in search, not Vivisimo, as we learned in the UK last week. Poor Autonomy, Google, Microsoft Fast, and Exalead. Maybe each should just become Endeca resellers.

Stephen E Arnold, December 13, 2010

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

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.