I used Tamaracka's Rubicon components in one project a few years ago.
You are wrong, it doesn't support *only* BDE (unless they changed this
recently). Download the demo and test by yourself.

I found Rubicon really fast in searching against millions of records,
with tons of texts blobs.

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z> Dear Group,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

z> Thanks for the answers!

z> Zzotnik