• Index Ranking for Search Relevance
  
• Step 1: Ranking XML Data Structure
• Step 2: Ranking of Text Content
• Step 3: Ranking of Documents
• Step 4: Calculation of Relevance
• Linear Ranking Scalability in Clusters
• Reduce Multi-page Browsing Queries
• Information Ranking Performance
• Configuring Ranking Rules by Policy
• Benefits for Database Management

Benefits for Database Management

There are a number of benefits that you can start exploiting using Clusterpoint's novel database content indexing method: Information Ranking.

By separation of database indexing and search system configuration from application software "world" we substantially reduce complexity of classic database management.

Here are the key advantages of our Information Ranking approach:

• Your own information ranking algorithm: through Clusterpoint flexible Information Ranking for your database objects, you can customize your database functionality for the best search experience and highest performance, at the same time implementing scalable XML-industry standard or JSON- developers friendly database storage software infrastructure;
• Search ranking configurability: re-configuring your database for better user search experience is done through Clusterpoint Document Policy configuration file; without doing any application software programming;
• Shorter development time: Application software development and testing becomes more easy and fast, eliminating often rather sophisticated software code and dependencies necessary for supporting relational database indexing system;
• Speed: Clusterpoint database platform provides fast, relevant (ranked by your own relevancy) and easy-to-use full text (ad hoc) search in all of your databases; out-of-the-box;
• Simplicity: Application software development does not require integration with 3rd party enterprise search or full-text search software; There is no need to learn and maintain architecturally different enterprise search software platform along your core database server software, no need to pay extra licenses if enterprise search product is commercial, no need to develop highly technical supporting code into your application software, in most cases requiring addressing search logic into your application software and its multiple versions; no need to maintain all that complexity at core database level and in your software;
• Scalability of search functionality: you do not need to address issues about creation and synchronization of database search indexes in cluster which may be rather complex job in relational SQL world; Clusterpoint Server automatically creates and maintains cohesive search index for your database cluster-wide; Clusterpoint Information Ranking, that is driving fast and relevant search, is designed for scale-out ability from the ground-zero, no extra software needed;
• Internet-style ad hoc search as standard for corporate databases: programming of database search and navigation for web applications with Clusterpoint Information Ranking is simplified crucially with Clusterpoint Server, which enables to perform simple Internet-style ad hoc search against any database that would instantly bring out all the relevant data on the first web page, and provide web application friendly user interface (with multi-page browsing, page offsets, page output limitations, faceted search, hit calculations, text snippets etc.)

With your own customized Document Policy file, telling to Clusterpoint Server how to organize (index and search) information in your XML-only or JSON-only database, and with your own document ranking algorithm, you can start building instantly responsive web applications delivering your own database information at the highest satisfaction level to your database users.

We believe there is little reason to continue to support organization of your database search logic into your application software, when your database search index with freely configurable custom defined ranking rules can be flexibly organized to perform exactly like your business needs demand. With Clusterpoint DBMS you can do it with a simple database configuration file. With Clusterpoint database platform you can focus your application development efforts on your business tasks and functionalities, instead of spending workloads of time trying to integrate different legacy systems and search tools to achieve your database performance and search relevancy goals.

We believe our approach is more productive for software developers and also for businesses in longer term.

For more customer benefits from Clusterpoint database technology in general please see also section Advantages.