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    Yeah, after looking at Oracle Text, it seems to have a very good feature set. So many the question is, why don't others have such good support? Commented Jun 16, 2011 at 19:47
  • +1 Good points. I would also add that there are many intricacies such as pluralization that complicate effective full-text searching, intricacies that are not part of the core competencies of most RDBMS's. Commented Jun 16, 2011 at 19:48
  • @Kibbee: It's probably one of those things that's easier said than done. And maybe Oracle customers are more willing to pay for Oracle to invest in the R&D than customers of other RDBMS vendors. Commented Jun 16, 2011 at 19:59
  • @Kibbee - Oracle also invested much earlier and much more forcefully in the idea that it makes sense to store unstructured and semi-structured data in the database. Most of the other vendors are much more focused on storing relational data and are relatively late comers to the "store all your data in a relational database" party. Commented Jun 16, 2011 at 20:09
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    Hi Justin, curious what you think 10 years later. Would you rate Oracle Text against something like Elasticsearch? Thanks! Commented Jan 29, 2021 at 17:19