Backbone for all Oracle Endeca Solution is Oracle Endeca Server (formerly Endeca MDEX) which is used as indexing and query engine.
What Is Oracle Endeca & Where it is used
Endeca is a Information Access & Search Platform
Endeca for B2B eCommerce
Endeca for Web Site Search
Endeca for Product Data Navigation, etc.
Oracle Endeca Different Components
Endeca Information Transformation Layer (ITL)
Oracle Endeca Server (Formerly Endeca MDEX)
Oracle Endeca Presentation API
Oracle Endeca Server (Formerly Endeca MDEX)
Oracle Endeca Presentation API
ITL is highlighted with dark color because it’s offline process where as Oracle Endeca Server and Oracle Endeca Presentation API is online process.
Understanding Different Components
Technical Overview
For this explanation we are considering source data as Flat File to ITL process. But it’s not just limited to that. Oracle Endeca accepts any of the following formats till date.
Forge in action: Once the data is in the ITL process Forge maps the source data to Oracle Endeca Properties and Dimension along with all configuration applied that were developed using Developer Studio.
Dgidx in action: Once data is forged, dgidx index the data and converts it to Endeca records which are finally given to Dgraph.
Dgraph in action: Once Oracle Endeca records are ready, enjoy ease and smooth Navigation and Search experience by query Oracle Endeca Server.
Records, Dimension and Properties
Records
Endeca records are the entities in your data set that users are navigating to or searching for. Below image show endeca record information
Dimensions
- Dimensions provide the logical structure for organizing the records in your data set. For example below categories are user to narrow down the result to specific product user is looking for.
Properties
§ Properties mostly contain detail about a record than the higher-level dimension values used for navigation.
Guided Navigation
- Guided Navigation is the presentation of valid follow-on refinement queries to the user.
- You can think of Guided Navigation as the elimination of invalid refinement queries, or dead ends.
An example below shows when user navigates to Carpet Kit. User still has options to navigate to more targeted records he is looking for. Here user can further drill down on Brand, Price, etc.
Using Endeca API
The Endeca Presentation API is based on following three core classes:
- HttpENEConnection class enables connections with Oracle Endeca Server.
- ENEQuery class builds query to be sent to Oracle Endeca Server.
- ENEQueryResults class contains results of Oracle Endeca Server.
Following is JAVA API example where we need to create a connection object to get
Oracle Endeca Presentation API URL Query Parameters
Endeca Presentation API URL Query Parameters
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It’s very good.
Thanks for such a nice article.
Good one.
Given an overview of Endeca. Nice one.
Good start point
Hi Mandar,
Can you explain us how to create an Endeca Ecommerce application? What all technologies do we require for that?
Endeca Commerce is an uplift of Endeca Guided Search…. Oracle is i believe wrapping up with those old names e.g. Endeca Guided Search etc… now what we have is Oracle Endeca Commerce which will again be gone in next year or 2… when Oracle just has ORACLE COMMERCE as the product… and no ATG and no Endeca… so, the complete Commerce solution with both commerce and search abilities will be out of the box… Today You need Endeca commere to basically tie it to ATG thru the ATG-ENDECA integration… rest is all abou search and navigation
Can you please tell me from where Endeca Server will fetch the data?