endeca enterprise search engine

Endeca is a enterprise wide search engine that supports navigational search and make search faster, Quicker and efficient manner. The Endeca operate like all our relevant data with different tables are mapped together and cooked up by endeca in a single flat file.

Endeca has three major components. They are like,
1. Endeca Information Transformation Layer (ITL)
2. Endeca MDEX Engine
3. Endeca presentation API.

The diagram below explains how different components interact together.




The ITL has an Content Acquisition System (CAS) which is responsible for reads your raw source data and manipulates it into a set of Endeca MDEX Engine indices.

The MDEX Engine loads the indices generated by the indexing
component of the Endeca Information Transformation Layer. After the
indices are loaded, the MDEX Engine receives queries from the Endeca
Presentation API, executes them against the loaded indices, and returns
the results to the client Web browser.

The Endeca Presentation API provides the interface to the MDEX Engine.
The API is responsible for querying the MDEX Engine and manipulating the
results. Endeca Presentation API has their own .NET and JAVA client libraries and it all so have supports web services based queries so that it can be implemented in anu languages.