FAST Search for SharePoint 和 SharePoint Server 2010 Search 的不同（3）

Product Differentiation

End user perspective - 300 level table

 

“Go Beyond the Search Box”

 

 

SharePoint Server 2010

 

* = same feature in both SKUs, but functions somewhat differently

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

 

 

End User

 

 

Great OOB user experience

 

including excellent relevance, refiners, and unique social search capabilities

Most powerful user experience

 

enhanced through visual, contextual, and conversational capabilities

One-stop search center to find answers fast

 

 

• Excellent OOB relevance*
• Federated results
• Windows 7 connector (access from web, desktop, or mobile)

 

• Enhanced multi-lingual support *

 

 

 

• PC and Mobile experience
• Best Bets
• Query Suggestions
• Spellchecking*
• Advanced Search
• Search Scopes (e.g. people, site)

·         Best-in-class relevance ranking

 

Same Capabilities plus:

 

·   Broader, Better language support

·   Broader query syntax

 

·   Broader language support (84 languages)

·   Configurable Query Transformations

 

Linguistics

 

 

 

Linguistics

·   36 languages detected

·   Improved ranking of documents in multilingual collections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linguistics

·   84 languages detected

See detail list for Languages Identified

 

·   Improved Recall with Lemmatization

·   Improved Recall with Lemmatization

 

 

·   Better Spellchecking

o  Language specific

o  OOTB spellchecking dictionary (reasonable spellcheck suggestions even if not much content is available)

o  Spellchecking customizable via inclusion and exclusion lists

 

·   Phrase search works even with stop words in the phrase

 

·   improved Recall with Lemmatization

o  document side expansion independent of query language

o  also works with phrase search

o  document side reduction (for very complex morphologies) 

o  Only nouns and adjectives are expanded (higher precision)

o  Spelling variants included for German (spelling reform) and English (BE, AE)

 

Query Syntax

 

·   New query syntax: Boolean, pre-fix wildcard, improved operators

·   Regular expressions, case sensitive support, content source prioritization

 

·   Modern query syntax: Parenthesis, parametric search, text and metadata terms

·   Advanced search page

Same Capabilities, plus:

·   Full wildcard (text*, *text, te?t, etc.).

·   Proximity Operators (near, ordered near)

·   Text/numeric expressions (including numeric comparison and range queries)

·   Rank operators in query language (XRANK)

 

FQL (FAST Query Language)

See Developer table

 

Refinement to explore information quickly

 

 

·   Metadata and  taxonomy based shallow refiners *

·   Related Searches

·   “View in browser” link

 

 

 

Same Capabilities, plus:

 

·   Deep refiners with counts over entire result set

·   Similarity search

·   Sorting on any property

 

•Refiners based on explicit or implicit (via content processing) metadata

·   Multi-level sorting

·   Field collapsing

·   Extensible duplicate detection

 

People and Expertise Search

Connect with People and Expertise

• Phonetic & nickname matching
• Relevance and refiners
• Integrated Presence

 

• “Address book style” search w/ Phonetic name matching
• Nickname matching
• Relevance models tuned specifically for people search
• Metadata refinement, better hit highlighting, recently authored content
• Expertise identification

 

 

·         “Vanity search” (search for yourself)

Same Capabilities

Search gets better with use

 

Social behavior drives search quality

 

• Click-through drives relevance
• Colleague & Expertise suggestions
• Query suggestions

 

 

• Search click through behavior drives relevance ranking
• Related search suggestions based on social behavior- mined from search logs

·         Social definitions mined from indexed content (automatic definitions)

 

(People search only)

• Email mining to bootstrap profiles with interests and colleagues

·         “Vanity search” (search for yourself) encourages you to fill out your profile

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Same Capabilities, plus:

 

• Click-through (Query Authority) weighted as part of rank profile

Visual cues for rapid recognition of information

 

·      Thumbnails & Scrolling Previews

·      Visual Best Bets

 

Contextual to meet the needs of diverse groups

 

·      User context from user profile

·      Multiple relevance profiles

 

 

IT Professional perspective - 300 level table

 

“Eliminate Compromise”

 

 

SharePoint Server 2010

 

* = same feature in both SKUs, but functions somewhat differently

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

 

 

IT Pro

 

Eliminate Compromise

 

High-end capabilities and easy delivery and manageability

Industrial Strength Scale-out and Performance

 

·         Scale-out in 3 dimensions

·         Full fault tolerance

·         Native 64 bit

·         Hyper-V support

·         Scale to 100M documents

 

 

·         Speedy results at nearly any scale

 

Same Capabilities, plus:

·      Extreme scale-out

 

 

 

·      Row/Column architecture for backend

·      Additional service-level configuration flexibility

 

 

·      Greater capability to share one large search farm across many search applications (“search as a platform”) - due to scaling, user context, etc.

 

Easy deployment

·         Wizard - driven installation

·         Consolidated search dashboard

 

·         Prereq checker

·         Wizard-based install

·         Configuration and deployment guidance “Recipes”

 

Same Capabilities, plus:

·      Multinode installer

 

 

 

Enterprise-class manageability

•       Powershell support

•       SCOM support

•       Full search reporting

 

•       SCOM monitoring and alerting *

•       Administrative Web parts

 

 

•       Search dashboard

•       Health monitoring*

 

•       118 SharePoint Search cmdlets

•       Search Service Applications (SSA) and Search Service Proxy

 

•       Unlock advanced/custom configurations

•     Verbose Query Monitoring

•     Import-/Export-Topology

•     pre-created DB configuration

 

Same Capabilities, plus:

•     Additional PowerShell cmdlets

 

Search Management

Search reports

+ extensibility

 

Detail: report list

Detail: search analytics

 

·         Easy administration of keywords & phrases

·         Easy configuration of UI web parts

·         Site admins can handle search administration, under IT’s control

·         Control over Best Bets

Same Capabilities, plus:

 

•  More keyword management options; visual best bets, site promotion/demotion, document promotion/demotion

Connectors

·         Full set of connectors OOB

·         Easy to add new sources via BDC

·         Strong security

 

 

·         SharePoint

·         File System

·         Web Crawler

·         BDC

·         People Profiles

·         Exchange (Public Folders)

·         Documentum

·         Lotus Notes *

 

 

Doc types (~10)

 

Detail: doc types

 

Security Trimming *

Claims Auth

 

Crawl rules regular expression UI

Same Capabilities, plus

 

·      Enterprise Web Crawler

 

·      JDBC (database) crawler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over 400 doc types (Stellant)

 

Detail: doc types

 

SAM *

 

Advanced Content Processing

 

·      Content Processing pipeline

·      Metadata Extraction

 

·      Pipeline Extensibility

See developer table

 

Metadata (Property) Extraction

·       OOB: people, location, companies, email, date/time

·      Custom: any list (e.g. product names, project names, departments, ….. )

 

Default pipeline stages

·      Format Conversion (iFilters, OutSideIn )

·      Language detection and encoding

·      Lemmatizer (Linguistics normalization )

·      Tokenizer (Word breaking )

·      Property Extraction

·      DateTimeNormalizer (Date normalization)

·      Vectorizer (Create document vector for similarity searching)

·      WebAnalyzer (Anchor text and link cardinality analysis )

·      PropertiesMapper (Map to crawled properties)

·      PropertiesReporter (Report detected properties)

 

Optional stages:

·      XML Properties mapper

·      Offensive Content Filter

·      Verbatim extractor (custom property extractors)

·      Field Collapsing

 

 

 

 

Easy to configure high-end user experience

 

·      Easy setup of User Context (from user profiles)

·      Control Visual Best Bets, Promotion/Demotion

·      Give end users control over sorting, ranking, navigation

 

 

•Easy setup of User Context from User profiles

•Control Visual Best Bets, Promotion/Demotion

•Give end users control over sorting, ranking, navigation

 

 

 

Developer perspective - 300 level table

“Do more with search”

 

SharePoint Server 2010

 

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

 

Customize the OOB user experience using Web Parts

•     Public Web Parts

Same Capabilities, based on

 the most powerful user experience

 

 

Extensions to shared Web Parts:

·      CoreResults WebPart

o   Enable/Disable Find Similar

o   Enable/Disable Document Preview

o   Options for Zero Result Queries

o   Enable/Disable Spellcheck

o   Set Spellcheck language

·      Search Action WebPart

o   Configure Display of sortable fields/rank profiles

 

Capabilities that

• Linguistics
• User Context

 

Leverage configurability to write less code

•     Admin OM/powershell

 

 

 

Same capabilities, including wider set of configuration

Extend connectivity using the BDC and Federation

•     New connector framework

•     Integrated with BCS

 

 

OpenSearch federation

 

Write-back (BCS)

 

Same Capabilities, plus configuration and use of:

 

•     Enterprise Web Crawler

•     JDBC connector

Combine search with other SharePoint capabilities

•     Integrate search with BI, Workflow, Social, & Collaboration

Same Capabilities, applying high-end search capabilities

Use familiar tools built for developer productivity

Advances in level of access, tooling, and developer experience

 

•     BDC tooling built into SPD

•     Application tooling in VS2010

 

•     Sandboxed deployment

•     Run on client OS for development

•     VS2010 advances (tester role, project view, multicore, etc)

 

Same Capabilities

Leverage Advanced Content Processing

 

·      Add custom property extractors

·      Configurable content processing

·      Content processing pipeline extension

 

See IT pro table for custom property extractors and content processing configuration.

 

Pipeline extensibility API:

·      Managed code called prior to Mapper stage

·      Can call to web services, 3rd party code, etc.

·      Examples: taxonomy/classification, sentiment analysis, multimedia processing,…

 

 

 

Customize relevance

 

·      Include external data in relevance

·      Build multiple relevance profiles

 

Additional capabilities for custom rank models

·         Anchor Authority

·         Query Authority (click-through)

·         Freshness

·         Quality (based on value on specific managed properties) - apply external information to ranking

 

Use advanced query capabilities to create powerful applications

 

·      Leverage FQL to create geosearch, user-selected influencers, and much more

 

 

FQL (FAST Query Language)

·         Extensive relevance control per query (Xrank)

·         Multilevel sorting and formula sorting (sortformula)

·         Geosearch (using sortformula)

·         Near () and symbolic searching

 

Tool support

Advances in level of access, tooling, and developer experience

·   Common Dev platform

·   Tool support (SPD)

·   Tool support (VS2010)

·   Developer environment