Dear Group,

I need to implement full text search in plain-text documents for my
Firebird based application.

As I know there is no full text search built-in into Firebird, so I
took a look at various 3rd party solutions. Note that I'll search
among foreign language documents, so the program should have unicode
support!

I'd be interested in your opinion - have you tried any of these, and
which one do you think is the best?

http://www.textolution.com/ftsib.asp -> A bit too expensive ($400)
and it hasn't been updated for a while -> meaning it could have some
unfixed bugs!

http://www.tamaracka.com -> seems promising and cheap, but uses the
BDE and doesn't support Unicode, which I'll need for my app.

http://www.ibobjects.com/ibofts.html -> this module is a part of
Interbase Objects (IBO delphi component) but there is not enough
data available on this one...

There would also be other solutions like using DocLucene or Mutis,
but both are .NET based and I don't want to include a net framework
in my app just to do full text searching...

Thanks for the answers!

Zzotnik