Search Appliance Matrix

Compare Search Appliance Tools for Enterprise Search, Intranet Search, or Web Search

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The search software, hardware, and support bundle or search appliance has become very popular since being introduced in early 2002. Organizations who want a choice of the industries best search tools without the cost of customization or professional services have chosen the Search Appliance over traditional software only offerings. In many cases organizations have seen a dramatic increase in website traffic, ecommerce sales, and intranet popularity.

Date of last update: 5/5/2005          Thunderstone SBE and APP 250                                                                                                            N/A = Info not available on vendors website

Vendor/Product Google Mini Thunderstone SBE Thunderstone   Search Appliance APP 250 Google Search Appliance GB-1001 Vivisimo  Velocity, Content and Clustering Index Engines

ES-100

Google Search Appliance GB-5005 Index Engines

ES-200

Google Search Appliance GB-8008
Version N/A N/A 5 4.2 N/A 1.0 4.2 1.0 4.2
Demo See it live See it live See it live See it live See it live See it live See it live See it live See it live
Maximum Number of Documents indexed Up to                100,000 Up to                50,000 Up to 6 Million Up to 500,000 Up to 1 Million Up to 4 Million files Up to 3 Million Up to 8 Million files Up to 15 Million
Number of Queries per Minute 50 1000 2500 300 N/A 3000 300 3000 1000
Target Customer Small Business - Intranet or website Small Business - Intranet or website Small to Large Business - intranet or website Large Business - intranet or website Midsize to Large Business -Intranet, website, ecommerce Small to Large Business - intranet Large Business, Intranet, website or ecommerce Midsize to Large Business -Intranet, Large Business Intranet, website or ecommerce
Review/Article InfoWorld   InfoWorld InfoWorld Business Week InfoWorld   InfoWorld  
Content from web servers Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Content from file server No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No
File formats indexed 220 Most Including Zip files Most Including Zip files 220 Most including Lotus Notes and Zip Microsoft Office files, ASCII text, PDF, XML, RTF, html, and more.

Files do not need to be web-enabled.

 Zip, Gzip, Tar.

Microsoft Exchange and .pst

 

220 Microsoft Office files, ASCII text, PDF, XML, RTF, html, and more.

Files do not need to be web-enabled.

Zip, Gzip, Tar.

Microsoft Exchange and .pst

220
Flexible Crawling Schedules Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Access control for secure content No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Content from RBDS No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
Content from 3rd party feeds No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
Search Internal and External sources with one query No Yes Yes No Yes No No No No
Content Integration from multiple sources - federated search No No No No Yes Yes No Yes No
Automatic Categorization of results - Clustering No No No No Yes No No No No
Ability to Attach Metadata to files No N/A N/A No Yes Yes No Yes No
Continuous Crawling No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes
Number of Collections One Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Number of Skins or User Interfaces One Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited   Unlimited   Unlimited
Multi-lingual  Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
Read, index and follow JavaScript No Yes Yes No Yes   No   No
Integrated with 3rd party Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes   Yes
Integration with 3rd party Desktop Search Tools Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes   Yes
Integration with 3rd Party Deskbar Yes N/A N/A Yes Yes   Yes   Yes
Works with 3rd Party Portals Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Appliance monitoring via standard SNMP interface No No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Software Updates and Support 1 year 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years
Standard Support Options Email, Online Forum Email, Online Forum, Phone Email, Online Forum, Phone Email, Online Forum Email, Online Forum, Phone Online, Email,  Phone

 

Email, Online Forum Online, Email  Phone Email, Online Forum
Hardware Support 1 year 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years
License Type Perpetual Perpetual Perpetual 2 year Perpetual or 2 year Perpetual 2 year Perpetual 2 year
Hardware Form Factor 1 U Rack Mount 1 U Rack Mount 1 U Rack Mount 2 U Rack Mount 2 U Rack Mount 1 U Rack Mount Multi Rack Included 1 U Rack Mount Multi Rack Included
Sample Pricing

Pricing from vendors website or other public sources

 

$2995

 Includes hardware and first year support and updates

$4995

 Includes hardware and 2 years support and updates

Starting at $10,000 to purchase hardware with software. support and updates for 2 years Starting at $30,000 for 2 year license includes hardware, software and support

 

Starting at $14,000 includes software license, support, updates and  hardware  from Dell or other vendor $29,500

Includes hardware and 2 years support and updates

2 years License includes hardware, software and support

Call or email for Price

$34,500

Includes hardware and 2 years support and updates

2 years License includes hardware, software and support

Call or email for price

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This information is provided as a service and was compiled from the vendor’s and other  public websites. Goebel Group Inc is not responsible for the accuracy of the content and suggests that prospective customers contact the vendors themselves for the latest updates. This matrix is the property of Goebel Group Inc and may not be distributed or copied.  2004-05

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