Text Analytics and Search

LightDB-A Database offers two different methods for text search and analytics, LightDB-A Database full text search and VMware LightDB-A Text.

LightDB-A Database Full Text Search

LightDB-A Database text search is PostgreSQL text search ported to the LightDB-A Database MPP platform. LightDB-A Database text search is immediately available to you, with no need to install and maintain additional software. For full details on this topic, see LightDB-A Database text search.

VMware LightDB-A Text

For advanced text analysis applications, VMWare also offers VMware LightDB-A Text, which integrates LightDB-A Database with the Apache Solr text search platform. VMware LightDB-A Text installs an Apache Solr cluster alongside your LightDB-A Database cluster and provides LightDB-A Database functions you can use to create Solr indexes, query them, and receive results in the database session.

Both of these systems provide powerful, enterprise-quality document indexing and searching services. VMware LightDB-A Text, with Solr, has many capabilities that are not available with LightDB-A Database text search. In particular, VMware LightDB-A Text is better for advanced text analysis applications. For a comparative between these methods, see Comparing LightDB-A Database Text Search with VMware LightDB-A Text.