Comparison of enterprise search software
The following tables compare the major enterprise search software vendors in their classes.
General information
| Product | formerly k.a. | Vendor | Stable release | Update | Platforms | API | Target Customer | Software License | Open source | Multilingual | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SearchStax | Measured Search | May 2017 | From mid-size organizations to Enterprises.
Enterprise search, online retail, search-based data analytics |
Subscription based | Yes | Yes | https://www.measuredsearch.com/cloud-search-service/solr/ | ||||
| ViaWorks | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | VirtualWorks | 2.7.3070 | March 2017 | Windows Server | REST | from small businesses to Enterprises.
Digital Transformation / Digital Workplace, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Search. |
Subscription based, Seat license | No, but incorporating Apache SolR | Yes, plus entity extraction in 18 languages | http://www.virtualworks.com/ |
| Mindbreeze InSpire | Mindbreeze InSpire | Mindbreeze | 2016 Summer Release | October 17th, 2016 | Windows Server Linux | REST, SOAP, .NET, Java, Push API | Information Insight, Knowledge management for departments/organizations, Big Data Search & Analytics | ? | No | Yes (including languages like CJK) | www.mindbreeze.com |
| Lookeen Server[1] | Lookeen Server | Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH | 1.3.1.1118 | April 2014 | Windows Server | .NET | ? | ? | No | Yes | http://www.lookeen-server.com |
| intergator | intergator Enterprise Search | interface projects GmbH | 5.3 | March 2016 | Windows Server, Linux Server | Java, Groovy und XML/JSON | Enterprise Search,Knowledge-Management, Content Analytics, Big Data | Yes | No | Yes | http://www.intergator.de |
| Coveo Enterprise Search | Coveo Platform | Coveo Solutions Inc | 7.0 | February 6, 2014 | Windows | REST, SOAP, .NET | Web customer service, customer interaction hubs | ? | No | Yes, multilingual user interfaces | http://www.coveo.com/en/advanced-enterprise-search |
| 3RDi Search | 3RDi Search | The Digital Group Inc | 1.0 | NA | Generic | Supported | Enterprise Search, Knowledge Management, Big Data, BI, Analytics | Commercial | No | Yes | http://www.3rdisearch.com |
| Endeca Guided Search | ? | Oracle | 6.2.2 | March 2012 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/commerce/endeca/endeca-guided-search/overview/index.html |
| EXALEAD CloudView | ? | Dassault Systèmes | R2014 | July 2013 | Windows Server, Linux Server | Push API (PAPI) | ? | ? | No | Yes, 125 languages supported | http://www.3ds.com/products-services/exalead/ |
| Datafari | France Labs | 3.1.0 | January 2017 | Linux Server (for prod), Windows (for test) | REST | Enterprise Search, Knowledge management, Big Data, BI, Analytics | No | Yes | Yes | http://www.datafari.com/en | |
| FAST for SharePoint 2010 (F4SP) | Fast Search & Transfer | Microsoft | 2010 (SP1) | ? | Windows Server, SharePoint | .NET | ? | ? | No | ? | ? |
| SharePoint 2013 | Fast Search & Transfer | Microsoft | 2010 (SP1) | ? | Windows Server, SharePoint | .NET | ? | ? | No | ? | ? |
| Google Search Appliance (GSA) | ? | 7.4 | March 2015 | ? | .NET, Java | ? | No more licenses being sold for on-prem | ? | Yes | https://www.google.com/enterprise/search/products/gsa.html | |
| HP IDOL[2] | . | HPE BigData | 11 | March 2016 | Windows, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris | SOAP, REST | big data and analytics, Enterprise search, Video, Image or Audio analytics, Knowledge-Management, Info-Governance | Yes, licensed by volume. Starting on 250Gb of Metadata | No | Yes | http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/information-data-analytics-idol/ |
| Haven Search OnDemand[3] | . | HPE BigData | 20160329 | March 2016 | SAAS Offering | REST | ? | Consumption-based pricing. | No | Yes | http://search.havenondemand.com |
| Funnelback Search | Panoptic Search | Funnelback | 15.6 | June 2016 | SaaS Offering, Windows server, Linux server | REST | Enterprise search, website search, vertical search | Document- and server-based licensing | No | Yes. Multi-lingual support includes indexing, querying and localised UIs | https://www.funnelback.com |
| IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Vivisimo Velocity | IBM | ? | ? | ? | ? | big data and analytics projects | ? | ? | Yes | http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/information-optimization/ |
| Swiftype Search | Swiftype | Swiftype | ? | September 2014 | Windows and Linux, MacOS | REST APIs | websites and mobile applications | No | ? | https://swiftype.com | |
| Lucidworks Fusion | N/A | Lucidworks Inc. | 2.1.4 | March 2016 | Windows, Linux, MacOS | REST APIs | Enterprise search, online retail, search-based data analytics | Licensed by CPU cores | No | Yes | https://lucidworks.com/products/fusion/ |
| Perceptive Search/ISYS | Enterprise Server | Lexmark Perceptive Software | 4.2 | ? | Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, HP-UX and AIX | REST, SOAP | ? | ? | ? | Yes | http://www.perceptivesoftware.com/products/perceptive-search |
| Secure Enterprise Search (SES) | ? | Oracle | 11.2.2.2 | January 2014 | Windows, Linux (Oracle, RedHat and SUSE, 32-bit and 64 bit), Solaris | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/search/oses/documentation/ses-096384.html |
| Sinequa | N/A | Sinequa | 10.2 | November 2016 | Windows, Linux | REST, SOAP, .NET, Java API; JSON and XML | Cognitive Search and Analytics for large enterprises - Enterprise Search, Expert Finder, 360 degree view, etc. | Subscription-based | No | Yes. NLP native in 21 languages. Recognizes 100+ languages. | http://www.sinequa.com/ |
| RAVN Connect | RAVN Systems | 3.3 | February 2014 | Windows Server, Linux Server | REST API | ? | ? | No | Yes | http://www.ravn.co.uk/capabilities/enterprise-search/ |
Features
Content Collection & Indexing
This section compares the ability of the products to collect and index content, both textual and non textual, from different data source types and document types (formats).
Indexing and connectivity
This is about indexing pipeline tools and processes; included connectors, support for connectors, etc.
Web-based
| Description | Lookeen Server[4] | HP IDOL[5] | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[6] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Swiftype Search | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search[7] | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP | For crawling of Web servers. | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HTTPS | For crawling of secured Web servers. | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XML | For indexing any XML-compliant data source. | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
File-based
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search 6.2.2 | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netware file systems | For incremental indexing of Netware file systems. | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Samba/Unix file systems | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows file systems, Windows NT Filesystems (NTFS) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Archiving/Directory
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[8] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDAP | For indexing a company directory stored on a LDAP (v2 or v3) server. | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Active Directory | Supports Microsoft Active Directory. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Symantec Enterprise Vault | . | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
Messaging
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akonix | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Facetime | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| IBM Lotus Connections | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| IMAP | For indexing e-mail messages and attached files stored on an IMAP server. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Lotus Notes | For indexing e-mail messages and attached files stored on a Lotus notes server. | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes (trigram:CLN) |
? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Exchange | Ability to retrieve and index e-mail messages and attached files (Mailboxes, Public Folders). | Yes | Yes | Yes, Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013 Servers | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes (trigram:CXG) |
Yes | ? | ? | Yes (via Adhere Solutions partner) | ? | ? | ? | Yes, Exchange 2003 Servers | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Exchange Online | . | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | . | Yes (IMAP) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| NNTP | For real-time indexing of Usenet news groups. | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| Gmail | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | . | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
CMS, DMS & Social
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL[9] | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[10] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfresco | . | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, but no native support | Yes | ? | ? | Yes (via Incentro partner) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| EMC Documentum Server | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes (trigram:CDO) |
Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EpiServer | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| IBM Content Manager | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes (via Adhere Solutions partner) | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| IBM FileNet | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes (P8) | ? | ? | Yes (via Adhere Solutions partner) | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| IBM WebSphere | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes, Informatica PowerCenter 9.x connectivity | ? | ? | ? | Yes (via Adhere Solutions partner) | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Jalios | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes (trigram:CJA) |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| SharePoint | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes (trigram:CXG) |
Yes | ? | ? | Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Microsoft SharePoint Services | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Online | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Dropbox | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Windows File Share | . | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Google Docs | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Jive | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| Plumtree | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| Lithium | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| Confluence | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
| . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | |
| . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | |
Databases
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[11] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM DB2 | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, ETL:Informatica PowerCenter DB2 for Linux |
Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JDBC | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, translates SQL database fields into XML documents than are then indexed together with the document metadata |
Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft SQL Server | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, ETL:Informatica PowerCenter |
Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MySQL | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ODBC | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, ETL:Informatica PowerCenter |
Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle RDBMS | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, ETL:Informatica PowerCenter |
Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Sybase | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes, ETL:Informatica PowerCenter |
? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
CRM, ERP, PLM, BI
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance[12] | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes (trigram:CSF) |
Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| SAP | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Custom | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Siebel/Oracle | . | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes, ETL:Informatica | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Dynamics | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Business Object | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Cognos | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Informatica PowerCenter | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes (trigram:CJA) |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| MicroStrategy | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes (via partners) | ? | ? |
| PTC Windchill | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| ENOVIA | Support for MatrixOne/Enovia data. | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes (trigram:CEN) |
? | ? | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Miscellaneous
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search 6.2.2 | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jira | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| GitHub | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, custom | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Slack | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Mantis | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
| JD Edwards/Oracle | EnterpriseOne, World. | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes ETL:Informatica PowerCenter |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| PeopleSoft/Oracle | . | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes ETL:Informatica PowerCenter |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Coming soon | ? | ? |
Supported Formats
| File type | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[13] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView[14] | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe PDF | Includes Adobe Acrobat or other PDF documents. | Yes | Yes | Yes, Version 1.0 to 1.7 | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web pages | HTML, XHTML, etc. | Yes | Yes, versions v.3, 4, 5 | .asp, .aspx, .cgi, .col, .dochtml, .dothtml, .fphtml, .hta, .htm, .html, .jsp, .php, .pothtml, .ppthtml, .shtm, .shtml, .xlshtml | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, versions v.4.01 and above, and XHTML |
Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language (.xml) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, any DTD |
Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text | Raw text. | Yes | Yes | .ascx, .bat, .cmd, .config, .csv, .dic, .exc, .inf, .ini, .js, .jsl, .log, .nfo, .scp, .sdl, .sln, .txt, .vbdproj, .vbs, .vdp, .vdproj, .vjp, .vjsproj, .vjsprojdata, .wsdl, .wsf, .wtx, .xsd ANSI, ASCII, Unicode | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Excel Charts (.xls), Microsoft Excel XML (.xlsx, .xltm, .xltx) Others (.xlam, .xlb, .xlm, .xlsm) | Yes | Yes | Version 5.0, 95(7.0), 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010. Indexes Excel 2010 attachments. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Word | Microsoft Word (.doc) Microsoft Word XML (.docx, .dotx, .dotm) | Yes | Yes for Mac, Windows (multiple versions) | Version 6.0, 6.0 (for MAC), 95 (7.0), 97, 98 (for MAC), 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010 Indexes Word 2010 attachments. | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | .pot, .potm, .potx, .ppam, .pps, .ppsm, .ppsx, .ppt, .pptm, .pptx | Yes | Yes | Yes, Indexes PowerPoint 2010 attachments. | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Access | MDB | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Project | MPP | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Visio | VSD | ? | Yes (multiple versions) | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Outlook | Message, archives, and templates (.msg, .oft, .pst) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| MIME documents | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. | Yes | Yes, Microsoft Outlook Express Mac and PC (multiple versions) (.eml) | .email, .eml, .ews, .mime MIME converter available with CES 7.0.5935+ | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Sun StarOffice | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No |
| Lotus 1-2-3 | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Lotus Freehand | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Corel WordPerfect | Corel WordPerfect Linux (.wps) Corel WordPerfect Macintosh (.wps) Corel WordPerfect Windows (.wo) Corel WordPerfect Windows (.wpd) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, version 6 and 7 |
Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Archive files | . | ? | 7Z, DMG, HQX, BIZIP2, GZ, ISO, JAR, EMX, BIN, BKF, CAB, LZH/LHA ZIP, RAR, RTFD, TAR, Z, UUE multiple versions. | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | RAR, ZIP | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RTF | Rich Text Format | Yes | Yes, multiple versions. | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image files (text extraction) | Yes | ? | Yes, .bmp, .jpeg, .max, .pcx/.dcx, .pdf, .png, .tiff, .tiff-fx requires the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) module. | ? | Yes (via partner) | Yes | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Images (metadata extraction) | Creation of thumbnail. | Yes | Yes | .bmp, .emf, .exif, .gif, .icon, .jpeg, .png, .tiff, .wmf | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PNG |
Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Audio (text extraction) | ? | ? | .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .asf, .au, .cda .mid, .midi, .mp1, .mp3, .mpga, .rmi, .snd, .wav , .wma Requires the Coveo Audio Video Search (CAVS) module. | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Audio (metadata) | Creation of thumbnail. | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, MP3, OGG. |
Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Video | ? | .264, video/3gpp, .3mm, .4mp ... .avi, .m1v, .mov, .mp2, ... | .avi, .m1v, .mov, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpa, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2 .qt, .rec, .rm, .rnx, .wm, .wmv Requires the Coveo Audio Video Search (CAVS) module. | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | Yes (metadata) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes. Metadata extraction. | |
| MacroMedia Flash | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, MacroMedia Flash text section and hypertext links |
Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No |
| Autovue 2D & 3D CAD files | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, Open CAD files directly inside Autovue | ? | Yes | No |
| AutoCAD Drawing | AutoCAD Drawing (DWF), AutoCAD Drawing Exchange (DXF) | ? | Yes, (multiple versions) | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| CATIA versions 4 and 5 | Drawing document (CATDrawing), Part document (CATPart), Assembly document (CATProduct), Model (V4 only) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, any 5 version |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No |
| SolidWorks v1 | Drawing (.slddrw), Assembly (.sldasm), Part (.sldprt) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, 2003 to 2013 releases |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Pro/ENGINEER | Part (.prt), Assembly (.asm) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, any release from R16 to 2001, from WF1 to WF5 |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No |
| CAD Open formats | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes, IGES version 5.2 and 5.3, STEP-File |
Yes (metadata from the DWG CAD format) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes. Metadata from DWG CAD |
Text Analytics
| Linguistics | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance[15] | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search[16] | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language detection | Ability to identify the languages at indexing time. | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Synonyms/stemming | Ability to treat as synonyms variations of keywords. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Named Entity Extraction | Ability to automatically extract entities such as persons, locations and organizations from indexed content. | ? | Yes named "Eduction" | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes With automatic entity linking | Yes | Yes |
| Stop words | Ability to exclude stop words (e.g. 'an', 'the') in order to improve relevance. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Audio & Video Analytics
| Multimedia | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search 6.2.2 | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio analytics | Ability to understand topics being discussed, genders and emotional tones of speech, music, etc. | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes speech, topics, music, keyword spotting | ? |
| Video analytics | Ability to understand the content of the video without relying on metadata (e.g. key framing, facial identification, logo recognition, etc.) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| Image analytics | Ability to detect patterns in image (e.g. faces, bodies, gender, age range, expression, etc.) | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes (via partner) | Yes | ? | Yes (via partner) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Search Experience
This section compares the ability of the products to :
- Enable the user to enter and execute the query
- Present the data to the user within seconds after the query is parsed and processed so that the user can find what he seeks quickly and act on it.
Search Language
| Query Parser | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[17] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect[18] | intergator | Funnelback Search [19] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildcard search | Does the system use the asterisk ("*") and question mark ("?") character as a wildcard? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fuzzy search | Does the system offer phonetic and approximate spelling search? (distinctions of syntax and semantics) | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Exact phrase search | Does the system enable to find words as a phrase? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Proximity search | Support for advanced proximity operators - NEAR, BEFORE, AFTER. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Range search | Ability to match all terms which are lexically between square brackets ("[]") and curly braces ("{}"). | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Boosting a term | Automatic bigram and trigram relevancy boosting. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Boolean search | Does the system interprets Boolean operators? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Graph search | Does the system keep relationships between fields and allows searching for them (while enabling full-text search)? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
Usability
Search Query
This is the process of searching (querying).
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[20] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auto-complete | Does the system provide an automatic query guidance in the search box while typing? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[21] |
| Spell-checking | Does the system checks if the words in the query are spelled correctly and suggest corrections? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes [22] |
| Federated search | The ability to send the same query simultaneously to several searchable sources. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[23] |
| Advanced search page | Does the system allow users to perform complex and sophisticated queries? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Result-list
This is the process of scanning the content of any document directly from the result lists.
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL[24] | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance[25] | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relevance ranking | Ability to find the highest quality and most relevant documents and bring them to the top of a search results list. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Google Site Search factors in more than 100 variables for each query | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Find similar | Ability to find similar links. | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Hit highlighting | Ability to highlight query key terms within the document in search result. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Summarization (view as HTML) | Does the system offer content preview in the search result, so that users can judge relevance of results? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | *only available for Office file types (Powerpoint, Excel, Visio, etc.) | Partial | Yes converts over 220 file formats into HTML | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Does the system enable to copy/paste from within the preview? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
| Thumbnails and preview | Ability to generate thumbnails for a large amount of different file types. | ? | Yes 100+ doc types | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes, but low resolution for CATProducts no thumbnails for Pro/E assemblies |
Yes | *only available for Office file types (.DOCx, .PPTx) First page thumbnail preview | Partial | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Full document graphical preview | Ability to access the content of any document without having to open a windows client application. | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes regardless of the file's original application |
Yes | *only available for PowerPoint file types | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes Asynchronous loading | Yes |
| Document comparison | Ability to compare. | ? | Yes for version management, signature identification, among other features | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Clustering | Ability to dynamically organize search results into groups. | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes group search results by topic | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Sort by fields | Ability to sort all results by order of date or other attribute. | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes, „hard sort‟ | Yes | Yes |
Faceted Navigation
This is the process of browsing the content by narrowing search results quickly in clicking filters that refine results based on related categories, so that users extract more meaning and insight from the content.
| Facets | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[26] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple filters | Does the system enable the user to filter results in selecting multiple facet values? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Facet values and counts | Ability to display the term and the number of documents containing that term in the search results. | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hierarchical- and range facets | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Date, number and string types | Ability to filter by date/time, number and string data types. | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Social and collaborative
This is the process of asking social network.
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010[27] | SharePoint 2013[28] | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search[29] | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search result tagging | Ability to improve relevancy by creating or adding existing tags. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes Real time | Yes | No. Deprecated in v14.0.1 |
| Tag searching | Ability to search for a tag. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Personalization/ Audience targeting | Ability to deliver more accurate targeted results. | ? | Yes, browse histories, content contributors, and interactions, etc | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes, source, date, metadata and entities biaising | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Expertise location | Ability to find experts in users organization by searching on related keywords. | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes with SDK |
Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Saved search | Ability to save searches. | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes with SDK |
No | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Saved alerts | Ability to save alerts in order to notified when new content matching your queries has been added to the system. | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Saved RSS feeds | Ability to save RSS feeds. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mobile support
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | ! FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile search | Does the system support mobile device access and search? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes[30] | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile UI | Does the system detect the user device (desktop, smartphone, tablet, etc.) and adapt itself based on it? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes. Admin UI and Default Public UI use responsive designs. |
| Geolocation | Does the system enable from the end-user’s geolocation to provide additional context to filter? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
| Compatibility | Is the system compatible with iOS. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Is the system compatible with Android? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
| Is the system compatible with Windows Phone? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | |
Administration & Architecture
This section compares the flexibility in the underlying architecture, application development, the scalability and the administrative services of the products.
Management & Search analytics
This table is about the ability to report on usage and activity (most popular queries, documents not found, etc.)
| Search analytics | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search[31] | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web based administration interfaces (HTML) | . | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search statistics | Does the system collect search statistics? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search reports | Does the system enable to report search statistics? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, most popular queries | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portal usage reports | Does the system enable to report on portal usage? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, popular navigation | Yes | Yes | Yes with SDK |
? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Document storage reports | . | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, for documents not found | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Custom reports | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes with SDK |
Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Click Scoring | Ability to improve relevancy by enabling to track which results are most often clicked. | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Interface flexibility
This is about tools to customize the interface,so that it adds value to any industry or business process.
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | Funnelback Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard based open interface | Does the system support all client platforms? | ? | Yes, HTTP and XML/JSON | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes, XML, JSON and HTTP | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes. HTML, JSON, XML, RSS and OpenSearch. |
| Page Layout Helper | Ability to change easily to global attributes (logo, fonts, header, and footer) and to the look of the Search Box and Search Results. | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Not from UI, but by changing AngularJS template | ? | Yes | No, action menu on search results not configurable | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
| Stylesheet editor | Ability to make more extensive changes using XSLT stylesheet. | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes Full customization with CSS or Java API & XML | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes XSLT stylesheet editor | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes. Full results customisation via FreeMarker[32] and CSS/JS. Cached copies of XML templated via XSLT[33] |
Scalability
| Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search[34] | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index capacity | How many total documents can be indexed into the system? | up to 10 Million | ? | ? | ? | No limit; Over 200 Million in production | No known limit | ? | ? | Up to 100 Million | Up to 100 Million | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Scalable to billions | Scalable to billions |
| Indexing rate | How rapidly documents can be added or reprocessed into the index? | real time | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? - Depends on documents fed | ? | Depends on setup and hardware | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | per requirement, scalable | ? |
| Query-processing speed | How many queries per second (QPS) the engine can process? | ? | 2,000 across all indexed data with sub-second response times | ? | ? | ? | ? - Can be scaled | ? | Depends on setup and hardware | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | scalable | Depands on the datasource. (sub)-second times | |
Platform readiness
| Search analytics | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General system requirement | Minimum of available disk space. | 100 MB | ? | ? | ? | ? | 3 GB | 25 GB | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 10 GB | 25 GB |
| Minimum RAM. | 8GB | ? | ? | ? | ? | 8 GB | 8 GB | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 8 GB | 4 GB | |
| Hard drives to store the data files. | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Could be anything. The faster the better. | SCSI, SAS, SAN, over FC or SSD disks (as opposed to SATA disks) |
? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | optimised for throughput SCSI, SAS, SAN | SCSI, SAS, SAN, SSD, HDD | |
Vendor Intangibles
This section compares each software investment.
| Investment | Description | Lookeen Server | HP IDOL | Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search | Endeca Guided Search | Sinequa Enterprise Search | VirtualWorks - ViaWorks | EXALEAD CloudView | Datafari | FAST for SharePoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | Google Search Appliance | IBM Infosphere Data Explorer | Lucidworks Fusion | Perceptive Search | Secure Enterprise Search | RAVN Connect | intergator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware costs | Total costs of servers. | 0 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Depands on the base licence |
| Installation costs | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Designed to be easily installable. For small installations implementation included | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| License costs | . | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? - Subscription License | ? | 0 | ? | ? | 500,000 Documents – $28,387 1 million documents – $66,236 Upgrade from 1 million to 2 million documents – $1,971 2 Million documents – $123,010 2 Million documents – $123,010 3 Million documents – $113, 548 3 Million documents – $158,967 5 Million documents – $433,766 10 Million documents – $305,066 10 Million – $423,913 15 Million documents – $533,896 15 Million documents with hot backup – $615,053 30 Million documents with hot backup – $993,548 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Annual Maintenance | Annual Maintenance fees. | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | None, included in subscription fee | ? | Per server | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
References
- ↑ Lookeen Server Enterprise Search
- ↑ HP IDOL
- ↑ Haven Search OnDemand
- ↑ Lookeen Server Enterprise Search
- ↑ Autonomy Information Connectivity
- ↑ Coveo connectors
- ↑ SES 11.2.2.2 Datasheet - Oracle
- ↑ What Connectors Are Available With Coveo
- ↑ KeyView IDOL - Product Brief
- ↑ What connectors are available with Coveo
- ↑ Coveo Solutions Inc., An Interview with Laurent Simoneau
- ↑ IBM DB2 Content Manager OD Connector for Google Search Appliance, by Adhere Solutions
- ↑ Coveo Platform 7, Supported File Formats
- ↑ Exalead Cloudview Connectors + Formats
- ↑ Microsoft and Google - BA Insight
- ↑ Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Administrator's Guide
- ↑ Search Prefixes and Operators
- ↑ RAVN Connect, CORE White paper
- ↑ https://docs.funnelback.com/query_language_help.html
- ↑ Coveo Reports Accelerated Demand for Search & Relevance Technology in 2013 Archived 2014-06-10 at Archive.is
- ↑ https://docs.funnelback.com/auto_completion_collection_cfg.html
- ↑ https://docs.funnelback.com/spelling_suggestions.html
- ↑ https://docs.funnelback.com/ui_modern_extra_searches_collection_cfg.html
- ↑ Autonomy KeyView IDOL - Product Brief - Ndm.net
- ↑ Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance
- ↑ Coveo Facets
- ↑ Search Solution for Microsoft SharePoint
- ↑ Introduction to SharePoint 2013 Search
- ↑ Perceptive Enterprise Search - Product Datasheet Archived 2013-10-07 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites - Office Support". support.office.com. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
- ↑ Endeca® Workbench: User's Guide - Oracle Documentation
- ↑ https://docs.funnelback.com/freemarker.html
- ↑ https://docs.funnelback.com/xslt_processing.html
- ↑ Scalability
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