Glossary
Maximum # of documents
It is the maximum number of documents that a specific version of searchbox can index. This type of limitation is applied only to searchbox Web Editions where documents managed by the platform are usually in HTML format. For documents in other formats (i.e. PDF) we consider a multipage document as a single document.
Maximum # of archives
In order to better organize gathered contents searchbox can manage many different Archives. Some versions of searchbox platform have a limitation on the maximum number of archives that can be created.
RSS output
Really the simplest way to publish fresh contents to your users. searchbox 2 is natively enabled to syndicate content in RSS format without any development effort. Very easy!
SOAP API
searchbox platform is accessible as Web Service. The searchbox WSDL definition and SOAP interface are fully interoperable with the Microsoft .NET platform, Apache Software Foundation's Axis (Java) and numerous other SOAP implementations.
Supported protocols
All searchbox can gather contents from sources with HTTP(S) protocols. Enterprise edition supports many other protocols like NNTP, FTP, GOPHER, etc.
Mail support
All commercial versions of searchbox include one year of email support from the purchase date, premier phone support is available on demand.
Maximum # of CPUs
Enterprise versions of searchbox are available both for single or dual CPU servers.
Maximum # of users
searchbox 2 has a powerful user management feature. With a standard ACL mechanism appliable to Sources, Archives, Collections and Watches you can create private views of the system for specific users of groups of user. The enterprise edition of searchbox comes with three different sizes of the maximum number of users it can manage.
Maximum corpus size
Forget limitations about the maximum number of documents, for enterprise environments you can choose your searchbox version depending on how much space your original documents take.
Plug-In SDK
searchbox functionalities can be extended writing custom modules to post-process parsed documents before they are indexed, so you can add your set of keywords and/or metadata to the documents.
Builtin portal
Be ready to make queries through a standard browser without installing additional server components (i.e. Tomcat, Apache HTTP, etc.). searchbox comes with an embedded portal immediately ready to be used.
nautilus kit
It adds the same drill-dow and automatic clustering feature of nautilus to searchbox starting from release 2.2.0
Premium Support
Only for enterprise versions an advanced technical support and a special upgrade program is available.