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7 items tagged “sphinx-search”

2012

How can you build a search engine for a website built in PHP/MySQL?

There are a bunch of options.

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2010

Who are major competitors to Solr?

ElasticSearch is a really interesting one—it’s the same underlying search library (Lucene) and the same integration model (an HTTP interface) but takes quite a different approach. It hasn’t been around for a long time but it looks very impressive: http://www.elasticsearch.com/

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How do Solr, Lucene, Sphinx and Searchify compare?

Lucene is a Java library for creating and searching through a full text index. If you want to make use of it, you’ll need to write your own Java code that integrates with it.

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2009

Ravelry. Tim Bray interviews Casey Forbes, the single engineer behind Ravelry, the knitting community that serves 10 million Rails requests a day using just seven physical servers, MySQL, Sphinx, memcached, nginx, haproxy, passenger and Tokyo Cabinet.

# 3rd September 2009, 6:50 pm / scaling, ravelry, tim-bray, caseyforbes, tokyocabinet, tokyotyrant, rails, mysql, sphinx-search, memcached, nginx, haproxy, passenger

Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out. Interesting new feature: the Sphinx search server now supports the MySQL binary protocol, so you can talk to it using a regular MySQL client library and fire off search queries using SELECT syntax and the new SphinxQL query language.

# 8th April 2009, 1:59 pm / sphinx-search, mysql, sql, search, full-text-search

2008

In-Depth django-sphinx Tutorial. Another neat Django extension from the guys at Curse: easy integration with the sphinx full text search engine.

# 5th March 2008, 12:03 am / django, curse, python, sphinx-search, search, david-cramer

2007

django-sphinx (via) More code from Curse Gaming; this time a really nice API for adding Sphinx full-text search to a Django model.

# 9th September 2007, 12:35 am / django, python, orm, search, sphinx-search, cursegaming, david-cramer, full-text-search