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SOTDS Software v1.3beta
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This tool "Stone Oakvalley's Text DataBase Searcher (SOTDS)" works with all databases I created with the use of a dedicated .INI file configuration available in the separate database packages


It works on WinXP and above. Use the pulldown menu to select from the available databases you might have downloaded. The GUI and columns needed will change based on the database chosen. Simply download the installer below and get going. It's pretty fast in searching, expect 0.00ms for exact hits!. Wildcards are supported too, naturally it takes a bit longer to search, but you can easily get out 243 hits in 0.05ms! Note that I'm still working on getting the search speed even faster, so consider it a good and solid attempt for now.

And oh, the GUI is in standard Windows style as I totally refrain from and are disgusted by other software GUI designs the recent years which suffer from dreadful bloating and airy design which is filled with childish colorful icons derived from Apple-toilet-design-inspiration-mayhem with shapy soft corners and minimalizm. Hah, bullshit all of it. You can't recreate an already proven industry standard GUI design that has lasted for over 10 years. Believe me, good old WinME and WinXP (without the blue theme) in classic standard design is the way to go for EVERYONE regarding user interface, fast too. Do not fall for the desire to follow the bandwagon or jump on the Flash-Themed-milliseconds-fluid-animation-buggy-as-shit shit!. Enough said!

It should also be mentioned that unlike other search engine software out there, you are allowed to search for a single character, but behold, a search for "a" in a million entries can really take some time.

On the other impressive side note, the search performance and memory requirements are many many times below your favourite search engine tool as the software merely spools on the disk, extracing out packages subject for search term hits, decompresses and frees the memory needed during that time. You can easily get impressive search speeds on very low spec systems, like Asus eeePC with only 900mhz celeron cpu and 1gb of mem. Now, that's really something. I will produce examples of this when I'm closing in for the next (possible final) release where I will perform the same search on many different systems and pc's, just to show proof of concept!


Note: Antivirus software will probably ignite on the setup and main program itself. This is naturally because I have embedded some html codes inside the executeable file to produce output and the welcome screen seen above. Do not worry, I do NOT produce spyware or virus shit. You can always trust my software downloaded from my own site!

In order to use this software to something useful, you should download any or all of the databases below and simply unpack the zip file as it is into whereever you installed the database engine.

Note2: I'm currently having great success improving the search speed as well as producing more databases to be uploaded. The above software may contain bugs and crash, even give out unexpected search hits along with beeing slow. In addition to this I'm completely rewriting the generation of databases and all missing features will then be included in the next software version.


The original database package is in a own unique customized structure format and compressed, as SQL testing don't make it really. Sorry, it's just too complicated and actually way to slow compared to my engine. In my opinion SQL sucks bigtime and are a bloated piece of shit.

The actual lumps of searchable packages are structured based on character and lengths, which minimizes the need for startup time of software and memory usage during searches, as it's actually read from a big file using file positions unpacking on the fly. Very neat.

Introduction page



Wildcard search in one of the test databases. Giving out 533 hits from a 2.0 million database in wildcard search in just 0.87 seconds. This will be improved in future versions, stay tuned.



Database Selector in action.




Please review these related article links:
Click to open zipDownload SOTDS V1.3 (beta) Main Program, (Released 19 August 2012).


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