A new enterprise search system has been released by Searchdaimon, a software development firm based in Norway.

The platform has evolved from academic research at the same university that developed the original Fast Search & Transfer search system acquired by Microsoft, and adds high-speed content processing and concept identification.

“Data volume is now growing exponentially. We are routinely seeing users with e-mail boxes in the hundreds of thousands of e-mails and search projects where they plan to collect “everything” for “all time,” said co-founder Runar Buvik.

“Searchdaimon’s background is Internet search, so we are used to handling large volumes of data. There is no practical limit to the number of Searchdaimon ES virtual servers which can be clustered together. Therefore, big data present no particular problems.”

Unlike traditional search systems, Searchdaimon has been designed to operate in virtual machines from a cloud provider such as Amazon or a licensee’s service provider. On-premises installations are supported as well. The architecture permits seamless scaling so that high volumes of content can be processed with minimal latency.

“The functions are comparable to the features and functions available from HP Autonomy, Endeca, Exalead, and other aggressively marketed systems,” Buvik said.

“For example, Searchdaimon offers filtering, sorting, content federation, search suggestions, spell checking of user queries, stemming and lemmatisation, a graphic interface for the administrative services, logs, statistics, and the other components of a modern enterprise information retrieval system. The ES is a fully featured enterprise search solution that can index different content types scattered across multiple servers and storage devices. The system offers full text search to end users.”

For those looking for a turn-key solution, Searchdaimon is available as an appliance. The system can be snapped into Microsoft environments. An optional connection to Microsoft Active Directory is available.

Buvik said Searchdaimon is “fundamentally committed to open source software. We provide the documentation and access methods needed to integrate Searchdaimon into other applications. It is also easy to build a search-based application on top of the Searchdaimon system.”

According to Buvik, the basic version of Searchdaimon ES delivers a comprehensive enterprise search solution without charge. The free version supports 10 users. For more users, the company offers a very competitively priced license. Specific pricing details are available at http://www.searchdaimon.com/products/price_list/.

The system, whether for a few users or thousands, provides site search and search in internal corporate data.

Buvik also administers a website where a prospective licensee of an enterprise search system can run a query across nine different systems.  Visit the site at http://www.opentestsearch.com