What's New!

Newsgroup Upgrade (6/28/07) The online newsgroup search application has been upgraded to use InterBase 2007.

Sageolit Uses Rubicon (2/16/06) Southern African Geological Literature database (Sageolit) is an online database application that uses Rubicon Full Text Search technology.

Newsgroup Server Upgraded (1/29/06)  A series of power outages degraded the reliability of the newsgroup search server. Several upgrades were installed over the weekend that should improve uptime.

Rubicon 2.22 Released (12/01/04)  This release  includes updated drivers for Advantage 7.1, DBISAM 4.1.4, DOA 4.0.6.2, NexusDB 1.08, and ODBC Express 6.01.  Registered users may download this free upgrade.  A trial run version is also available.

Rubicon 2.21 Released (12/14/03)  This release  includes updated drivers for Advantage 7.0, Apollo 6.1,  DBISAM 3.27, DOA 4.03, IBO 4.3Aa, IBX 6.08/7.08, NexusDB 1.03.1, and ODBC Express 6.0.  Registered users may download this free upgrade.  A trial run version is also available.

Rubicon vs DBISAM FTS  (10/23/03) comparison published.

Borland Newsgroups Updated  (10/5/03) Our database  newsgroup messages has been updated to include the newly rebuilt Borland news server. Duplicate messages between Borland's old and new news server have mostly been eliminated. The database now contains 4.75m messages, 9gb worth!

Rubicon Supports NexusDB  (10/3/03) Tamarack Associates is pleased to announce support for the newest Delphi database product.

Rubicon 2.20 Released (6/14/03) This release features easier integration with SysTools and includes updated drivers for Apollo 6.1, DBISAM 3.24,  FlashFiler 2.13, and IBX 6.05/7.05.  Registered users may download this free upgrade.  A trial run version is also available.

Search App Upgraded (5/29/03) The newsgroup search app is now hosted on Windows Server 2003 and InterBase 7.

Newsgroups' 6th Birthday  (5/6/03) Our Borland newsgroup database celebrates it's sixth year online!

Four Million Messages  (11/12/02) are now indexed in our Borland newsgroup database!

InterBase 6.5 (8/1/02) The newsgroup search applications have been converted to IB 6.5.

Visual Developer (3/7/00) praises Tamarack's newsgroup search engine. "Searches are fast and results pertinent ... providing a demo of practical use to your best customers is a masterstroke", Mar/Apr 2000.

Readers Choice Award (2/18/00) Rubicon 2 was voted the runner up in the Database Tools category in Delphi Informant Magazine's annual Readers Choice Awards.

"Rubicon kicks butt" (9/1/99) Visual Developer, Sept/Oct 1999. Full review.

Developers Review (12/14/98) See a review of Rubicon 2 in the December 1998 issue.

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Rubicon 2 Index

Product Description
Customer Quotes
Test Drive Rubicon
Database Drivers
Component Overview
TrbMake Component
TrbUpdate Component
TrbSearch Component
Search Speed
Filtering Search Results
Search Examples
FastPhrase Technology
Ranking & Navigation
Version 2 Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Rubicon vs DBISAM FTS
SysTools
Press Release
Downloads
Support
Upgrades
Order

Rubicon Full Text Search

Rubicon 2 is the leading full text search engine for Borland Delphi and C++ Builder. Rubicon enables you to build royalty free applications that let your users perform searches simply by typing words.  What could be easier?  More

Test Drive Rubicon!

Rubicon 2 & Delphi 7

Rubicon 2 supports Delphi 7 and the ADO, BDE, Database and InterBase Express components.  Version 2 has also been updated to support the Delphi 7 versions of ADS,  DBISAM, DOA, IBO, NexusDB, ODBC Express, and Topaz. This is a free upgrade for registered users.

Rubicon FastPhrase Technology

This new technology (introduced in v2.04) allows  Rubicon to perform phrase searches just as fast as non-proximity searches.  Wow, is it fast!  More

Compatible

Rubicon 2 works with the Borland Database Engine, Advantage, ADO, Apollo, Database Express, DBISAM, DOA, InterBase Express, InterBase Objects, NexusDB, ODBC Express, and Topaz.  Drivers

Rubicon Reviews

"Rubicon kicks butt ... Rubicon is the de facto standard for high-speed full-text searches. If you want to incorporate fast text searches into your applications, look no further. Rubicon is the solution.  Visual Developer (full review), Sept/Oct 1999.

"The biggest compliment I can pay to Tamarack is that I'd be very happy to pay the modest amount required to add Rubicon to my toolbox.   It's a handy tool to have."  Developers Review, December 1998.

"Full-text searching is a very useful and oft-requested search strategy, yet not at all easy to implement efficiently.  Tamarack Associates has tackled the job with intelligence, flair, and thoroughness. Search no further."  Delphi Informant, March 1998.

Online Demos

Use Rubicon to search an online database of Borland newsgroups.   Also see descriptions and links to sites that use Rubicon as their search engine.  More