SRCH2: Security and Speed
October 12, 2014
Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search offered advanced security. Perfect Search stressed its speed. SES has been marginalized. That particular security pitch did not work. Perfect Search also has faded from the scene.
Perhaps pitching both security and speed will yield more together than as separate features.
SRCH2 asserts that it is four times faster than open source search engines. None of the open source search engines is a speed demon. Speed boosts require additional work on the specific subsystem introducing the latency for a particular deployment.
SRCH2’s “Real Time Computer Requires Faster Search” makes a case for the optimization built in to SRCH2’s system. The article states:
SRCH2 offers the world’s fastest search engine. Why is speed so important? After all, the human eye can’t detect the difference between a 10-millisecond and 50-millisecond response time.
Some data backing this assertion would be helpful. In a direct comparison of Lucid Works’ technology with ElasticSearch’s technology, the ArnoldIT team found that one was faster in indexing and the other was faster in query processing. Both could be improved with focused optimization. Perhaps SRCH2 will share some of their data which backs up the “four time faster claim? (I am not at liberty to release the performance data a client requested my team compile from live tests on my test corpus.
SRCH2’s “SRCH2 Introduces Access Control Lists to Improve Search Security.” The article states:
SRCH2 took the approach of providing native support of access control to set restrictions on search results. With SRCH2’s ACL feature, developers can restrict user permissions to access either certain records in an index, or specific attributes within a record or set of records.
The approach is useful. However, it is less robust that the Oracle approach which implemented a wider range of features provided by specialized Oracle subsystems.
Will the combination of security and speed pay off for SRCH2? Good question. I do not have an answer.
Stephen E Arnold, October 11, 2014
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