Welcome

Egothor is an Open Source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. It can be configured as a standalone engine, metasearcher, peer-to-peer HUB, and, moreover, it can be used as a library for an application that needs full-text search.

Key features of egothor

  • Written in JAVA for cross platform compatibility.
  • New dynamization algorithm for fast index updating.
  • Fully 64-bit kernel
  • Transactions (ACID)
  • Plagiarism detection
  • Document revisions, Xdelta
  • Incremental updates
  • Queries can be solved in a parallel manner
  • Able to recognize the most familiar file formats: HTML, PDF, PS, and Microsoft's DOC, and XLS.
  • The best compression methods are used, i.e. Golomb, Elias-Gamma, Block coding.
  • Based on the extended Boolean model which can operate as the Vector or Boolean models.
  • Universal stemmer that processes any language.

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