TwhRubiconSearch: F.A.Q.

1. How much overhead is associated with the Rubicon components?
   For Delphi XE, the core Rubicon package is roughly 400kb. The size of the database bridge package varies; for ADO it is 46kb.
2. Can Rubicon do a case sensitive search?
   You would have to handle that as a post-process filter. Rubicon would give you all the matches case insensitive, and then you could filter back to a subset that were exact matches.
3. Should I use Rubicon to search files on my local disk, not in a database?
   That is not what Rubicon was design for but you can do it. There is a non-gui demo for that; look for the rbFile unit.
4. What about support for stemming?
   Stemming has been in the too-hard basket for a long time. We are planning to prototype a solution after Rubicon 3 is fully established.
5. What about support for languages such as Japanese which do not use a space between characters?
   We have reviewed algorithms for this and are tentatively planning to add N-Gram (where N is 2) support after Rubicon 3.
6. What about Rubicon v2 for Delphi 2007?
   For customers of Rubicon v2.22 (in 2004), packages for Delphi 2007 are available online from HREF Tools; $10.00 requested donation.
7. I do not see my database bridge mentioned. What do I do?
   Use our contact page to vote for your database bridge. Two (2) votes are required before we put it on the schedule.

Answers to common technical questions are all in the User Manual.