Among existing studies, the SIGIR ’06 poster by Fazli Can and Bilkent Information Retrieval Group [4] is probably the most relevant to the present work since they
also used the same data set, the same evaluation measure and several stemming algorithms. We also used fixed prefix stemming at length five that used in their work for comparison. While the aim of them is to determine which stemming algorithm and matching function provides more effective retrieval environment in Turkish,
the present study covers comparison of open source information retrieval libraries and relational databases in order to determine which system is more suitable for an
application that requires full-text search in Turkish language.