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 |
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Lookeen Server |
Lookeen Server |
Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH |
1.3.1.1118 |
April 2014 |
Windows Server |
.NET |
? |
? |
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Coveo Enterprise Search |
Coveo Platform |
Coveo Solutions Inc |
7.0 |
February 6, 2014 |
Windows |
REST, SOAP, .NET |
Web customer service, customer interaction hubs |
? |
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Endeca Guided Search |
? |
Oracle |
6.2.2 |
March 2012 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
|
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
Real Time Big Data Search & Analytics |
Sinequa |
8.8 |
September 2013 |
Windows Server, Linux Server |
SOAP,REST,.NET,java |
? |
? |
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EXALEAD CloudView |
? |
Dassault Systèmes |
R2014 |
July 2013 |
Windows Server, Linux Server |
Push API (PAPI) |
? |
? |
http://www.3ds.com/products-services/exalead/products/exalead-cloudview/overview/ |
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FAST for SharePoint 2010 (F4SP) |
Fast Search & Transfer |
Microsoft |
2010 (SP1) |
? |
Windows Server, SharePoint |
.NET |
? |
? |
? |
? |
|
SharePoint 2013 |
Fast Search & Transfer |
Microsoft |
2010 (SP1) |
? |
Windows Server, SharePoint |
.NET |
? |
? |
? |
? |
|
Google Search Appliance (GSA) |
? |
7.2 |
February 2014 |
? |
.NET, Java |
? |
? |
? |
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HP Autonomy IDOL |
. |
HP/Autonomy |
10 |
? |
Windows, HP-UX, Linux |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
Vivisimo Velocity |
IBM |
? |
? |
? |
? |
big data and analytics projects |
? |
? |
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/information-optimization/ |
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Swiftype Search |
Swiftype |
Swiftype |
? |
September 2014 |
Windows and Linux, MacOS |
REST APIs |
websites and mobile applications |
? No |
? |
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LucidWorks Search |
Lucid Imagination |
LucidWorks Inc. |
2.6 |
September 2013 |
Windows and Linux, MacOS |
REST APIs |
? |
? |
? |
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Perceptive Search/ISYS |
Enterprise Server |
Lexmark Perceptive Software |
4.2 |
? |
Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, HP-UX and AIX |
REST, SOAP |
? |
? |
? |
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 |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
RAVN Connect |
RAVN Systems |
3.3 |
February 2014 |
Windows Server, Linux Server |
REST API |
? |
? |
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 |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
Swiftype Search |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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HTTP |
For crawling of Web servers. |
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Yes |
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HTTPS |
For crawling of secured Web servers. |
? |
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? |
? |
? |
Yes |
? |
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XML |
For indexing any XML-compliant data source. |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Yes |
? |
? |
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File-based
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search 6.2.2 |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Netware file systems |
For incremental indexing of Netware file systems. |
? |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
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Samba/Unix file systems |
? |
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Windows file systems, Windows NT Filesystems (NTFS) |
? |
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? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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Archiving/Directory
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
|
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LDAP |
For indexing a company directory stored on a LDAP (v2 or v3) server. |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
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? |
? |
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Microsoft Active Directory |
Supports Microsoft Active Directory. |
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? |
? |
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? |
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? |
? |
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Symantec Enterprise Vault |
. |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
? |
? |
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Messaging
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Akonix |
. |
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Facetime |
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IBM Lotus Connections |
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? |
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IMAP |
For indexing e-mail messages and attached files stored on an IMAP server. |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
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IBM Lotus Notes |
For indexing e-mail messages and attached files stored on a Lotus notes server. |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
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Microsoft Exchange |
Ability to retrieve and index e-mail messages and attached files |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
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Microsoft Exchange Online |
. |
? |
? |
. |
? |
? |
? |
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? |
? |
? |
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NNTP |
For real-time indexing of Usenet news groups. |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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Gmail |
. |
? |
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? |
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? |
? |
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? |
? |
? |
? |
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CMS, DMS & Social
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL Autonomy |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Alfresco |
. |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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? |
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EMC Documentum Server |
. |
? |
? |
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EpiServer |
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? |
? |
? |
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? |
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IBM Content Manager |
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? |
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? |
? |
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IBM FileNet |
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? |
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IBM WebShpere |
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Jalios |
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SharePoint |
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SharePoint Online |
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Dropbox |
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Windows File Share |
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Google Docs |
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Jive |
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Plumtree |
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Lithium |
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Confluence |
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Databases
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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IBM DB2 |
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? |
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JDBC |
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Microsoft SQL Server |
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MySQL |
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ODBC |
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Oracle RDBMS |
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Sybase |
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CRM, ERP, PLM, BI
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Salesforce |
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SAP |
. |
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Siebel/Oracle |
. |
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Microsoft Dynamics |
. |
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Business Object |
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IBM Cognos |
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Informatica PowerCenter |
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MicroStrategy |
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PTC Windchill |
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ENOVIA |
Support for MatrixOne/Enovia data. |
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Miscellaneous
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search 6.2.2 |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Jira |
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Mantis |
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JD Edwards/Oracle |
EnterpriseOne, World. |
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PeopleSoft/Oracle |
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Supported Formats
File type |
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Adobe PDF |
Includes Adobe Acrobat or other PDF documents. |
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Web pages |
HTML, XHTML, etc. |
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XML |
Extensible Markup Language (.xml) |
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Text |
Raw text. |
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Microsoft Excel |
Microsoft Excel Charts (.xls), |
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Microsoft Word |
Microsoft Word (.doc) |
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Microsoft PowerPoint |
.pot, .potm, .potx, .ppam, |
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Microsoft Access |
MDB |
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Microsoft Project |
MPP |
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Microsoft Visio |
VSD |
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Microsoft Outlook |
Message, archives, and templates (.msg, .oft, .pst) |
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MIME documents |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. |
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Sun StarOffice |
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Lotus 1-2-3 |
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Lotus Freehand |
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Corel WordPerfect |
Corel WordPerfect Linux (.wps) |
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Archive files |
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RTF |
Rich Text Format |
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Image files |
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Images |
Creation of thumbnail. |
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Audio |
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Audio (metadata) |
Creation of thumbnail. |
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Video |
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MacroMedia Flash |
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Autovue 2D & 3D CAD files |
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Autovue |
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AutoCAD Drawing |
AutoCAD Drawing (DWF), AutoCAD Drawing Exchange (DXF) |
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CATIA versions 4 and 5 |
Drawing document (CATDrawing), Part document (CATPart), |
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SolidWorks v1 |
Drawing (.slddrw), Assembly (.sldasm), |
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Pro/ENGINEER |
Part (.prt), Assembly (.asm) |
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CAD Open formats |
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Text Analytics
Linguistics |
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Language detection |
Ability to identify the languages at indexing time. |
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Synonyms/stemming |
Ability to treat as synonyms variations of keywords. |
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Named Entity Extraction |
Ability to automatically extract entities such as persons, locations and organizations from indexed content. |
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Stop words |
Ability to exclude stop words (e.g. 'an', 'the') in order to improve relevance. |
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Audio & Video Analytics
Multimedia |
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search 6.2.2 |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Audio analytics |
Ability to understand topics being discussed, genders and emotional tones of speech, music, etc. |
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Video analytics |
Ability to understand the content of the video without relying on metadata (e.g. key framing, facial identification, logo recognition, etc.) |
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Image analytics |
Ability to detect patterns in image (e.g. faces, bodies, gender, age range, expression, etc.) |
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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 Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Wildcard search |
Does the system use the asterisk ("*") and question mark ("?") character as a wildcard? |
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Fuzzy search |
Does the system offer phonetic and approximate spelling search? (distinctions of syntax and semantics) |
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Exact phrase search |
Does the system enable to find words as a phrase? |
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Proximity search |
Support for advanced proximity operators - NEAR, BEFORE, AFTER. |
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Range search |
Ability to match all terms which are lexically between square brackets ("[]") and curly braces ("{}"). |
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Boosting a term |
Automatic bigram and trigram relevancy boosting. |
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Boolean search |
Does the system interprets Boolean operators? |
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Graph search |
Does the system keep relationships between fields and allows searching for them (while enabling full-text search)? |
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Usability
Search Query
This is the process of searching (querying).
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Auto-complete |
Does the system provide an automatic query guidance in the search box while typing? |
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Spell-checking |
Does the system checks if the words in the query are spelled correctly and suggest corrections? |
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Federated search |
The ability to send the same query simultaneously to several searchable sources. |
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Advanced search page |
Does the system allow users to perform complex and sophisticated queries? |
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Result-list
This is the process of scanning the content of any document directly from the result lists.
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Relevance ranking |
Ability to find the highest quality and most relevant documents and bring them to the top of a search results list. |
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Find similar |
Ability to find similar links. |
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Hit highlighting |
Ability to highlight query key terms within the document in search result. |
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Summarization |
Does the system offer content preview in the search result, so that users can judge relevance of results? |
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Does the system enable to copy/paste from within the preview? |
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Thumbnails and preview |
Ability to generate thumbnails for a large amount of different file types. |
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Full document graphical preview |
Ability to access the content of any document without having to open a windows client application. |
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Document comparison |
Ability to compare. |
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Clustering |
Ability to dynamically organize search results into groups. |
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Sort by fields |
Ability to sort all results by order of date or other attribute. |
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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 Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Multiple filters |
Does the system enable the user to filter results in selecting multiple facet values? |
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Facet values and counts |
Ability to display the term and the number of documents containing that term in the search results. |
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Hierarchical- and range facets |
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Date, number and string types |
Ability to filter by date/time, number and string data types. |
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Social and collaborative
This is the process of asking social network.
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Search result tagging |
Ability to improve relevancy by creating or adding existing tags. |
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Tag searching |
Ability to search for a tag. |
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Personalization/ Audience targeting |
Ability to deliver more accurate targeted results. |
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Expertise location |
Ability to find experts in users organization by searching on related keywords. |
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Saved search |
Ability to save searches. |
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Saved alerts |
Ability to save alerts in order to notified when new content matching your queries has been added to the system. |
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Saved RSS feeds |
Ability to save RSS feeds. |
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Mobile support
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Mobile search |
Does the system support mobile device access and search? |
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Mobile UI |
Does the system detect the user device (desktop, smartphone, tablet, etc.) and adapt itself based on it? |
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Geolocation |
Does the system enable from the end-user’s geolocation to provide additional context to filter? |
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Compatibility |
Is the system compatible with iOS. |
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Is the system compatible with Android? |
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Is the system compatible with Windows Phone? |
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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 Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Web based administration interfaces |
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Search statistics |
Does the system collect search statistics? |
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Search reports |
Does the system enable to report search statistics? |
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Portal usage reports |
Does the system enable to report on portal usage? |
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Document storage reports |
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Custom reports |
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Click Scoring |
Ability to improve relevancy by enabling to track which results are most often clicked. |
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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 Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Standard based open interface |
Does the system support all client platforms? |
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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. |
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Stylesheet editor |
Ability to make more extensive changes using XSLT stylesheet. |
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Scalability
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Index capacity |
How many total documents can be indexed into the system? |
up to 10 Million |
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Up to 100 Million |
Up to 100 Million |
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Scalable to billions |
Indexing rate |
How rapidly documents can be added or reprocessed into the index? |
real time |
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per requirement, scalable |
Query-processing speed |
How many queries per second (QPS) the engine can process? |
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2,000 |
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scalable |
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Platform readiness
Search analytics |
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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General system requirement |
Minimum of available disk space. |
100 MB |
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25 GB |
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10 GB |
Minimum RAM. |
8GB |
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8 GB |
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8 GB |
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Hard drives to store the data files. |
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SCSI, SAS, SAN, over FC or SSD disks |
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optimised for throughput |
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Vendor Intangibles
This section compares each software investment.
Investment |
Description |
Lookeen Server |
HP Autonomy/IDOL |
Coveo for Advanced Enterprise Search |
Endeca Guided Search |
Sinequa Enterprise Search |
EXALEAD CloudView |
FAST for SharePoint 2010 |
SharePoint 2013 |
Google Search Appliance |
IBM Infosphere Data Explorer |
LucidWorks Search |
Perceptive Search |
Secure Enterprise Search |
RAVN Connect |
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Hardware costs |
Total costs of servers. |
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Installation costs |
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License costs |
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500,000 Documents – $28,387 |
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Annual Maintenance |
Annual Maintenance fees. |
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