On 05/09/2014 17:18, Ann Harrison aharrison@...
[firebird-support] wrote:

> What's needed is a full-text index, which Firebird doesn't offer. Lucene
> and others produce full-text indexes that can be used with Firebird (I
> think, haven't tried it).

Apparently the Sphinx full-text search was adapted to Firebird in 2008
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/other-downloads/
... but perhaps it hasn't been maintained?!?