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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: 11/1/2007       Updated : Google Search Appliance more features.                                                                                        N/A = Info not available on vendors website

Vendor/Product Google Mini Thunderstone SBE Thunderstone   Search Appliance APP 250 Google Search Appliance GB-1001 Index Engines

ES-100

Google Search Appliance GB-5005 Index Engines

ES-200

Google Search Appliance GB-8008 Arexera
Version 2.2 N/A 5 4.2 1.0 4.2 1.0 4.2 N/A
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 (files) indexed Up to                300,000 Up to                50,000 Up to 6 Million Up to 500,000 Up to 4 Million files Up to 10 Million Up to 30 Million Up to 15 Million Up to 5 Million
 
Number of Queries per Minute 50 1000 2500 300 3000 300 3000 1000 2000
Target Customer Small Business - Intranet or website Small Business - Intranet or website Small to Large Business - intranet or website Large Business - intranet or website Small to Large Business - intranet Large Business, Intranet, website or ecommerce Midsize to Large Business -Intranet, Large Business Intranet, website or ecommerce Small to Large Business - Intranet or Website
Review/Article InfoWorld   InfoWorld InfoWorld InfoWorld   InfoWorld    
Content from web servers Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Content from file server No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
File formats indexed 220

* Business Objects, Cognos, Cisco, Employease, Microsoft Exchange,
Netsuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAS, and others.

Most Including Zip files Most Including Zip files 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 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, PDF, Html, Txt

Files do not need to be web-enabled.








 

Flexible Crawling Schedules Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Access control for secure content Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Content from RBDS Yes* Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No
Content from 3rd party feeds No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes
Search Internal and External sources with one query Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No
Content Integration from multiple sources - federated search No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Automatic Categorization of results - Clustering No No No No No No No No No
Ability to Attach Metadata to files No N/A N/A No Yes No Yes No No
Continuous Crawling No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No
Number of Collections One Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Number of Skins or User Interfaces One Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited   Unlimited   Unlimited One
Multi-lingual  Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes
Read, index and follow JavaScript No Yes Yes No   No   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 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
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 Online, Email,  Phone

 

Email, Online Forum Online, Email  Phone Email, Online Forum Email, Online
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 2 year Perpetual 2 year Perpetual
Hardware Form Factor 1 U Rack Mount 1 U Rack Mount 1 U Rack Mount 2 U Rack Mount 1 U Rack Mount Multi Rack Included 1 U Rack Mount Multi Rack Included 1 U Rack Mount
Sample Pricing

Pricing from vendors website or other public sources

 

50,000 documents for $1995.

100,000 documents for $2,995

200,000 documents for $5,995.

300,000 documents for $8,995.

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

 

$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

Starting € 20.000 includes software license, support and hardware
 

*The Google Mini - Search Results from a DBS with Google OneBox Enterprise.

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