Our search and retrievel engine

Index (not a database/file structure)

A database refers to a collection of interrelated data, plus a set of programs to access, modify, and maintain the information. A database’s primary function is to store and manage large amounts of information. When used with a document imaging system, the database contains the key search words which are mapped (pointed) to the associated documents. The integrity of this relationship must be maintained in order to retrieve a document.

DIS-Imaging embeds the key search words into each individual document in a way that allows a user the freedom to choose one of several hundred indexes for search and retrieval. Indexes perform a similar function of a database, but do not require a high level of expertise needed to service and maintain. Therefore, unless an organization has access to the specialized level of expertise needed to service and maintain a document-imaging database, they should narrow their selection to index systems.

The index that comes with our software will index over 100,000,000 documents in a single index. That number can be expanded if necessary. To put the power of our index into perspective, a Google Appliance costs $32,000 and will index one million documents.

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