If you use Delphi, take a look at Rubicon (www.tamaracka.com). You can
test its speed searching the millions of messages from the newsgroups
indexed in Tamaracka site;

PS: Tamaracka base is currently using InterBase, but I assume the
results would be the same with FB.

Carlos
http://www.firebirdnews.org
FireBase - http://www.FireBase.com.br

Z> Hi guys!

Z> I'm developing a document management system and I need to provide
Z> full text search among documents.

Z> In order to accomplish this, I'm storing the content of each
Z> document in plain text format in a BLOB
Z> field of a Firebird table.

Z> The question is, as I have heard Firebird doesn't have full text searching capabilities.

Z> Which is the best third party solution for this?

Z> Here are a few I've found, but none of them seems perfect. Does
Z> anyone have any experience with these
Z> or maybe another solution?

Z> http://www.ibobjects.com/ibofts.html
Z> http://www.textolution.com/ftsib.asp
Z> http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/FulltextFirebird.asp

Z> Thanks!