Thursday, August 16, 2007

Oracle UltraSearch

Well I have been reading up on Oracle UltraSearch (which I believe has either been superseded or replaced by Oracle Secure Enterprise Search). I am working on a search solution for a client which requires the integration of multiple repositories into a single search and I believe this is this the ticket.

The goal is to integrate the search of their Portal deployment, Content Services content, and in the future some 3rd party websites.

Awesome! Ultrasearch for Collab Suite does this out of the box, right?

Nope. Well it does, but it will only index public content in Portal, and we want to be able to do search with ACLs. Furthermore, there is additional metadata associated with the documents that we need to capture. Also, as far as content services goes, the ultra search integration is touted as being implemented using the Federated search aspect of ultra search. Basically this means that Content Services is searched in real time and not indexed by ultra search. (On a hunch, I consider this to be slower).

Expect to see how-tos on Ultra-search coming in the future.

-sean

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