Force.com Full-Text Search Engine
Web-based application users have come to expect an interactive search capability to scan the entire or a selected scope of an application’s data, return ranked results that are up to date, and do all this with sub-second response times. To provide such robust functionality for platform applications, Force.com uses an architecture based on an external search engine, as depicted in Figure 12.
Figure 12. Force.com uses an external search engine to provide fast text searches for multitenant applications.
As applications update data in text fields (CLOBs, Name, etc.), a pool of platform background processes called ...
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