Basis database or OpenText Collections Server is an Extended

Relational Database Management System A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relati ...

(RDBMS) produced by

OpenText OpenText Corporation (also written ''opentext'') is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software. OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's fourth-largest software company ...

. BASIS was originally developed by the Battelle Institute, and was spun off into Information Dimensions, a private company based out of Columbus Ohio. The strength of BASIS was its Full Text Indexing. The original version of BASIS was eventually merged with an RDBMS system called DM, and the resulting product was called BASISplus. Information Dimensions was bought and sold a number of times before being acquired by OpenText Corporation in summer 1998. Although the product is an extremely powerful and robust Full Text Database that incorporates a number of interesting features such as an integrated

Thesaurus A thesaurus (plural ''thesauri'' or ''thesauruses'') or synonym dictionary is a reference work for finding synonyms and sometimes antonyms of words. They are often used by writers to help find the best word to express an idea: Synonym dictionar ...

, early

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support and BLOB storage, it remains a very niche product which struggles to keep its market share. The product runs on multiple platforms, and has a number of programming interfaces, including ODBC and JDBC drivers.

External links

OpenText Collections Server

OpenText Collections Server Product Overview

References

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