System Architecture
- Scalability
- Index large volumes (e.g., 1 GB a day) plus search large collections (e.g., > 100GB) at practical speeds
- Support for parallel execution, distributed search servers, load balancing
- Integration with Structured Databases
- Ability to map information to and from structured dbs
- API
- allows product to be adapted to different applications
- customized GUI, help, and usability highly dependent on this
- Interoperability - Protocol Standards