I need very general guidance for setting up an appropriate kind of web
database. I want to make thousands of html files accessible to a user
search by means of an appriate engine and web page interface, but I'm
not certain about what kind of database to put these documents in.
The search would be full text, and so based on indexing, and I'd also
like the user to locate the documents based on a hierarchical subject
tree (which is the case at present). It does not seem to me that a re-
lational database would be appropriate, but what would be? XML does not
seem useful either, because searches are full text and the subject hier-
archy is very extensive and complex. I'd like to set it up under Apache
on my local machine using open software (my project is entirely non-
commercial).
Haines Brown
