Many of today's applications have a need for full-text search capabilities for various reasons. Although full-text search has traditionally been the domain of Information Retrieval, nowadays popular Relational Database Management Systems started to implement functionalities that support full-text indexing and searching. The present book covers a comparison of the text retrieval performances of relational databases and Information Retrieval Systems, as well as a comparison of the execution times during indexing and retrieval tasks over a Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)-like test collection...
Many of today's applications have a need for full-text search capabilities for various reasons. Although full-text search has traditionally been the d...