Text Search Using Database Systems Revisited - Some Experiments

With the increasing availability of information in electronic form, the integration of textual data into database systems is becoming more and more important. Motivated by recent technology development, we describe how a preprocessor for simple text retrieval can be realised on top of a relational database system. This approach shows a surprisingly good performance compared to a commercially available information retrieval system and compared to another relational preprocessor product for text search.