Re: Couple of naive questions
Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@yahoo.com> writes:
> There is another gap (from the same point of view) on
> unix systems: lack of a powerful free-form database.
> Relational, structures packages are too slow to use, I
> can't spend so much time in filling data. That is
> matter for an organization, even free like PubChem.
> What I need, is to fill words, paragraphs, even an
> entire paper, into a record, having a powerful boolean
> search to retrieve in seconds through thousands of
> records. I can even quickly set fields on the flight.
> I could write books useful for the amount of data
> through my extensive databases, constructed day by day
> with minimum effort. Though, I have to use it through
> wine. I hope one day someone will start such a project
> for unix-type systems.
Maybe I'm showing ignorance but what you describe sounds more like an
indexing search engine rather than a database.
If so, maybe the "htdig" package would be useful. With some helpers
you can index DOC and PDF as well as text-based formats. It then
provides a web based search front-end.
-Brett.
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