MaxxCAT™ Bobcat Connector

The MaxxCAT™ BobCAT SQL Connector allows MaxxCAT™ appliances to connect directly to SQL databases and to extract relevant information for high performance full text retrieval, and simultaneous searching across other data sources. The BobCAT Connector can be configured to interact with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL and other ODBC databases.

Using standard SQL, the BobCAT connector can index entire tables, joins, views or a subset of fields and records. Intuitive for SQL programmers and DBAs, the connector allows virtual documents to be created using simple or complex SQL statements. The MaxxCAT™ search appliances are then able to crawl the underlying database and perform extremely rapid queries against the virtual documents. The results returned from the BobCAT connector can be integrated into web pages, applications, or other systems that use the search appliance as a compute server performing the specialized function of high performance search across large data sets.

In addition to indexing raw data, The BobCAT connector provides the capability for raw integrators to index business intelligence and back office systems from disparate applications, and can grant the enterprise user a single portal of access to data coming from customer management, ERP or proprietary systems. Because the BobCAT connector is tightly integrated with the MaxxCAT™ appliances, the task of establishing crawls, and customizing output is striaght forward and acessible using industry standard tools such as JSON, HTML and SQL.

For additional information, or to request a trial of a MaxxCAT™ enterprise search appliance equipped with a BobCAT SQL connector, contact sales@maxxcat.com.

MaxxCAT™ Lynx Connector

The MaxxCAT™ Lynx Connector is an open data path directly into the MaxxCAT™ Enterprise Search appliances that allows developers, integrators and connector foundries to interface with the high speed MaxxCAT™ search appliances. The connector consists of two components, the input bytestream and a subset of the MaxxCAT™ API that controls the processing of collections and the appliance. The input bytestream uses a standard socket listener configured to respond on a given port of the appliance. The Lynx Connector monitors the connection socket and accepts bytestream input that is generated by third party connectors, applications or external systems. Then, under control of the API, this bytestream is indexed into the MaxxCAT™ appliance and made available to user processing modules.

There are many applications of the Lynx Connector, including building plugins and connector modules that connect MaxxCAT™ to external software systems, document formats and proprietary cloud or application infrastructure. Users of the Lynx Connector have a straightforward path to take advantage of MaxxCAT™'s specialized and high performance retrieval engine in building solutions.

Developers interested in building applications around the Lynx Connector framework, or the MaxxCAT™ search appliances should contact MaxxCAT™ for additional information, development hardware and support resources at lynx@maxxcat.com.