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We've tried to provide small competitive analysis between all possible solutions. We've found many decisions available to find files by its' content; but few solutions are available to search files by their names.
Many of these provide synchronous scanning. Also we've found few solutions similar to Zaval File Search, but their facilities are a little bit behind ours. They are:
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- Effective File Search
- Catalog Max
- MP3finder
- Urfin
- File Tracer
- Ace IntraSearch
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We've found the following solutions are leaders of two groups:
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- MP3finder, as synchronous software with wildcards;
- Urfin, as design similar to Zaval File Search;
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All of them have no possibility to provide full-featured regular expressions scanning. The following small table demonstrates all signed differences between these solutions with comparison of the standard facility have embedded to WinNT explorer also:
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| Feature |
Zaval File Search |
MP3 Search |
Urfin |
Standard WinNT explorer search capabilities |
| Scanning and searching are divided in two phases |
yes |
no |
yes |
no |
| Fully featured localization support |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
| Localized interface |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
| Engine optimized to large set of shares and huge amount of files |
yes |
partially |
yes |
no |
| User interface have optimized to fast and reliable search in set of similar file names |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
| File search by its' attributes |
no |
partially |
yes |
With 3rd party add-ons |
| Search through several shares at once |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| Search through set of computers at one time |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| Scanning allow to limit and specify hosts |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| Every share management |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| Regular expressions to specify shares and hosts |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
| Management from user side, not an administrator |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
| Specific user credentials to scan |
yes |
no |
yes |
no |
| FTP support |
yes |
no |
no |
With 3rd party add-ons |
| Hosting platform |
Linux |
Windows |
Windows |
Windows |
| Have designed for multiple users access at once |
yes |
no |
yes |
no |
| Network traffic |
Low and localized |
High and unpredictable |
Low and localized |
Low and unpredictable |
| Administrators' interface |
no |
no |
Control Panel applet |
no |
As you can see every existing solution has its own features and requirements to the file search. So if you want a solution that would work under any Unix platform, you need fast, reliable and powerful search engine with modern search paradigm, with regular expressions - our software is best choice for you.
But if you need to use WinNT host, and you like friendly user interface to control your engine - Urfin is your right choice.
And if you do not need to provide efficient way on medium and large networks, you can use any kind of software listed at top of this article; we propose MP3finder like utilities to provide full network scans, as you need.
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For more information about the product, please contact Zaval
CE Group directly in a free form.
Thank you,
The Zaval CE Group.
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