Oracle Search Branding
July 19, 2009
Poking around on the Oracle Web site, I came across what may be the reason Oracle SES 10g dropped off my radar. The new SES10g is Ultra Search. You can read about the search system which is included with the Oracle database. The page I located is here. The Ultra Search system is described in part this way:
Ultra Search is based on Oracle10g Text technology and is an out-of-the box solution that requires no SQL coding. Ultra Search is included with the Oracle database, Application Server and Collaboration Suite and is available free of charge for license holders of these products. It uses a crawler to index documents; the documents stay in their own repositories, and the crawled information is used to build an index that stays within your firewall in an Oracle10g database.
The “white paper” dates from 2002. My hunch is that Oracle just bagged the SES10g “security will sell” angle and went back to the basic search system. Giving away search may be the path that Microsoft Fast will be following as well. The era of search as a commodity seems to be taking hold at Oracle. If anyone has any additional information, please, use the comments section to pass the information along.
Stephen Arnold, July 19, 2009
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Ultra Search is the “old” SES and has been included for free with the DB since 9i I believe (maybe sooner). If you look closely there are significant capability and architecture differences between Ultra Search and SES (besides security). One significant difference is that SES has more advanced search capability and Ultra Search is pretty rudimentary.
I agree that it seems like something is going on with SES because it is really quiet and there is no mention of it with 11g (look SES up on the web, follow the links and eventually you will end up at the 10g docs).
My guess is they are changing the name and the marketing…this is typical of Oracle…go silent, repackage as a new product and then re-buzz.
If you find anything else out about SES or UltraSearch I would love to hear about it.
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