The Gigablast Appliance

The Gigablast Appliance is a small, 1U (about the size of a pizza box) server that can hold and search one billion web pages. Network hundreds together to increase your search engine's size or speed.

Appliance Details
Maximum Index Size	1 Billion Web Pages
Minimum Typical Query Throughput	20 Queries per Second
Power Requirements	240 Watts Maximum Power
Operating System	Linux
Gigablast Version	Gigablast PRO™
Redundant Power Supplies	✔
Rackmountable	✔

The Gigablast Appliance runs Gigablast PRO™, a souped-up commercial version of the popular open source Gigablast search engine. In addition to hundreds of bug fixes and enhancements, there are a number of outstanding features that make Gigablast PRO™ a superior choice to its open source cousin.

	Gigablast PRO™	Gigablast Open Source
20x Faster Queries	✔	❌
Accelerated Spidering	✔	❌
Query Spell Checker	✔	❌
Query Completion	✔	❌
Search-as-You-Type	✔	❌
Related Queries	✔	❌
Can Index Entire Book as a Document	✔	❌
Enhanced Spider Proxy Usage	✔	❌
Enhanced Performance Diagnostics	✔	❌
Available as a 64-bit Binary	✔	✔
Available as a 32-bit Binary	✔	✔
Cached Pages	✔	✔
Query Term Highlighting	✔	✔
Uses Wiktionary for Query Expansion	✔	✔
Supports Gigabits™	✔	✔
Supports Nuggabits™	✔	✔
Customizable Synonym File	✔	✔
Indexes Word Position Information	✔	✔
Transparent Scoring	✔	✔
Redundant Mirror Hosts	✔	✔
Distributed Spider	✔	✔
Highly-Programmable Spider	✔	✔
Duplicate Removal at Spider Time	✔	✔
Duplicate Removal at Query Time	✔	✔
Real-Time Spider Monitoring Widget	✔	✔
Query Reindex/Delete Support	✔	✔
Can Repair/Rebuild Files	✔	✔
Federated Search over Multiple Collections	✔	✔
Spider Plugins to Convert Files to HTML	✔	✔
Indexes/Searches Native JSON/XML/WARC	✔	✔
Facets over Numeric/String Fields	✔	✔
Sort/Constrain by Numeric Fields	✔	✔
Shard Rebalancing in GUI	✔	✔
Can Return Millions of Results per Query	✔	✔
Nested Boolean Query Support	✔	✔
Built-in Real-Time Profiler	✔	✔
Built-in QA Test Suite	✔	✔
Uses Single Binary Program for Everything	✔	✔
Code Base Age	17 years	17 years
Code Base in Active Development	17 years	15 years
XML/JSON API	API	API
Supported Operating Systems	Linux	Linux
Minimum Memory per Host	8GB	4GB
Approximate Web Pages per Disk GB	35000	35000
Search Language Support	All	All