Aspire Features

Performance and Reliability

• • Distributed processing and automatic threading
  • The ability to split document processing jobs into sub jobs that can run in parallel
  • Standard technology for managing and restarting processes on servers for high availability
  • Can be placed within an architecture for Backup Failover

Ease of Administration

• • Making dynamic (on-the-fly) configuration changes
  • Dynamically adding new components
    • Dynamic refresh of component code
    • Rich built-in XML processing methods including XPath and XSLT
    • Hierarchical component configuration
  • Rich and comprehensive web-based administration and control interface

Strong Developer Environment

• • Intuitive workflow interface
  • Supports processing content in diverse languages
  • Easy mapping of document fields to search fields
  • Rich built-in JSON and XML processing methods, including XPath, XSLT
  • Use of scripting to build complex processing components
  • Hierarchical component configuration
  • Tightly integrated with Maven repositories for sharing and loading component code 
  • Sharing and loading component code
  • Process streams of tokens, for performing text analytics
    • Entity extraction
    • Latent Semantic Analysis
    • Document vector creation and comparison
    • Topic Analysis

Support for Security

• • Handle Proxy LDAP requests, including:
    • Authenticating users
    • Determining user group membership across a multitude of systems

Support to Federate Search Requests

• • Distribute queries to multiple search engines
  • Merge search results

Support for Hadoop

• • Ability to write to HDFS
  • Ability to include Aspire within Map/Reduce jobs