Overview

• Omnidex is a highly-optimized search and analytic engine that delivers dramatically faster queries for business intelligence and online applications using standard SQL interfaces.

• Omnidex provides flexible search capabilities that go well beyond a standard database. Omnidex indexes your textual data using search engine-like features, and uses fuzzy searches so that you don't worry about exact search terms or misspellings.

• Omnidex supports your relational database by adding speed and flexibility without altering the underlying database. Omnidex can enhance your query performance without jeopardizing your investment in the relational system.

• Omnidex indexes flat file data without costly imports into a relational database. Omnidex provides a complete SQL engine for your raw data files and transaction logs, all using standard ODBC and JDBC interfaces.

Omnidex is used in a wide variety of applications. Essentially, Omnidex is used when you need high performance and increased flexibility. Some of the more common Omnidex applications include:

• Database marketing and customer lists
• Business analytics and data warehouses
• Billion-record databases
• Online, searchable database applications
• Knowledgebases and text databases
• Transaction logs and other flatfile databases

There are three basic steps to implementing Omnidex into your applications:

1. Tell Omnidex where to find your data.
2. Add Omnidex indexing to your data.
3. Connect to Omnidex and perform queries.

Omnidex applications are easy to prototype. Omnidex will walk you through all of these steps using the Omnidex Administrator. Once you have created your Omnidex-enhanced database, you can run queries and see the performance for yourself.

As with all things, it is valuable to understand Omnidex more deeply before building a production application. Omnidex has many powerful features. Learning about these features will help you decide where you want to enhance your application.

Omnidex was first introduced in 1981 during the era when most companies began using computers for their day-to-day business. Omnidex began by providing indexing to the early database users in the Hewlett-Packard marketplace. During the 1990's, Omnidex expanded to include relational databases across a wide range of operating systems. Today, Omnidex provides a powerful SQL engine that automatically optimize queries using standard interfaces. Over nearly three decades, Omnidex has been used by over 4,000 customers in countries around the world.

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