Although it’s easy to see the utility and speed of the Amaxus search from a screencast or demonstration, it's more difficult to know what's happening behind the scenes, or what features are supported. With that in mind, we've put together a quick list for you about the Amaxus search engine:

• Search abstraction layer that enables different search systems to be plugged in
• Cross-platform, database-vendor-independent full text searching
• Comes with Apache Solr search: open source enterprise search server
• Wildcard searches using the ‘?’ and ‘*’ symbols
• Fuzzy searches (e.g. match words that lie within a certain Levenschtein Distance of the search term)
• Proximity searches (search for terms lying within a specific word-distance of each other)
• Range searches (find documents whose specific fields lie between a range of values)
• Term boosting
• Term grouping
• Boolean search operators, including AND, OR and NOT
• Searching is optimized for high volume Web traffic
• Enables searching by numeric types and unique keys in addition to text
• Distributed search with sharded index on multiple hosts
• Multiple search indices
• Search results can be sorted by any number of fields
• Result caching with ‘autowarming’
• Spelling suggestions for user queries
• ‘More Like This’ suggestions for given document
• Phonetic searching (e.g. for foreign languages)