which db should I use?

[Paul Rubin]

Robert Amesz <sheershion at mailexpire.com> writes:
> This might be what you're looking for. From the MySQL manual:
> 
> | As of Version 3.23.23, MySQL has support for full-text indexing
> | and searching. Full-text indexes in MySQL are an index of type
> | FULLTEXT. FULLTEXT indexes can be created from VARCHAR and TEXT

I've tried this and don't really recommend it.  Insertions are quite
slow, and (like many search engines) it uses some weird inscrutable
metric to decide closeness of match between a phrase and a database
row.  I think it's best to just do simple boolean combinations.