At 05:51 PM 11/10/2003 -0500, nwingfield@che-llp.com wrote:

I<snip> Question is: is ZCatalog robust enough for this purpose or will I be better served by a relational data model?

For lightning fast text searches, especially for advanced contextual features, you'll likely be best served with a database designed for that purpose. Thunderstone.com has one you can test for free, and quite reasonable license terms for the whole deal. Everything about it is tuned for fast, contextual text searches, on a wide variety of document types. They've got lots of big customers too, so support for performance tweaking is definitely there. <truth>Not even a customer, yet. Just seems an up-and-up product line that looks really good.</truth> =Paul