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What is Alchemy?

What is Alchemy?. What is Alchemy?. Alchemy is a repository for unstructured data Designed for high performance access to information from any source Resembles a database, but provides significant functionality a database cannot deliver. Alchemy Repository vs. Relational Databases.

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What is Alchemy?

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  1. What is Alchemy?

  2. What is Alchemy? • Alchemy is a repository for unstructured data • Designed for high performance access to information from any source • Resembles a database, but provides significant functionality a database cannot deliver

  3. Alchemy Repository vs. Relational Databases • Alchemy stores files in their native format; file types remain untouched • Alchemy text files are automatically compressed between 8:1 and 10:1 • Index compressions are significant, resulting in faster search response times • Alchemy does not require an additional database license • Alchemy can handle over 250 file types

  4. Alchemy Repository vs. Relational Databases (continued) • Alchemy can build portable repositories • Alchemy provides for annotations on images via sticky notes • Alchemy allows for customized template designs and indexing methods • Alchemy provides for read only clients on LANs/WANs as well as CD/DVD • Alchemy can split the ‘document’ repository into logical and physical pieces • Alchemy provides OCR capabilities

  5. Alchemy Repository vs. Relational Databases (continued) • Full text indexing would kill performance on a relational database • Relational databases are tuned for transaction processing, not documents • If a relational database index fails, the entire application becomes unavailable

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