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Introduction | Database marketing | Business analytics | Online databases | Raw data files | Large databases | Textual data
Businesses own a lot of data which resides outside of the relational database. Transaction logs contain valuable answers about the day's activity. Branch offices or vendors send raw data files, or “flat files”, that deserve immediate attention. Currently, businesses overload their relational databases by importing these raw data files simply because they want to use SQL. Give your relational database a rest. Your raw data files are good enough as they are. Omnidex can provide standard SQL access to these files without having to involve a relational database.
Omnidex can index and search raw data files, creating a database with a standard SQL engine, available through standard interfaces like ODBC and JDBC. For many raw data files, there is no advantage to the complexities of a relational databases and there are plenty of advantages to making it available quickly.