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Omnidex provides a wide variety of indexing capabilities. The simplest applications may simply require a few indexes to be added, but other applications may use many more indexing capabilities. It is useful to get a quick overview of the indexing capabilities of Omnidex. Customers commonly purchase Omnidex for its basic indexing capabilities, only to discover there is more more available.
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Omnidex Text provides provides specialized indexes designed for large amounts of textual data stored in a database, such as articles, knowledgebase entries, forums, lengthy product descriptions and so forth. Omnidex Text works seamlessly with the rest of Omnidex and allows large textual fields to be searched alongside regular columns in standard SQL statements, using standard ODBC and JDBC interfaces. Queries can issue traditional queries with criteria, table joins, aggregations and ordering, while at the same time querying large blocks of text.
Omnidex Text provides extended search capabilities for locating records where one or more words appear before, after or just near other words. Omnidex Text also allows excerpts to be extracted from the text, and allows sorting by relevancy, similar to an Internet search engine.
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