This section provides some recommended strategies that depend on the implementation type.

Relevance ranking behavior is complex and powerful and requires careful, iterative development. Typically, selection of the ideal relevance ranking strategy for a given application depends on extensive experimentation during application development. The set of possible result ranking strategies is extremely rich, and because setting ranking strategies is highly dependent on the quantity and type of data you are working with, a strategy that works well in one situation could be unsatisfactory in another.

For this reason, Oracle provides recommended strategies for different types of implementations and suggests that you use them as a point of departure in creating your own strategies. The following sections describe recommended general strategies for each product in detail.