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.