SPHINX

Home of SPHINX search is down

Home of great SPHINX search http://www.sphinxsearch.com is down. Complete site including Forums, Downloads are unavailable. It is now almost 12 hours since we realized that the site is down. One reason behind this might be that this site is NOT powered by SPHINX, yes its true forums searching is not implemented on SPHINX. Hope to [...]

SPHINX Distributed Searching

When we performing full-text searching through a number of large indexes it is important that we get results in shortest time possible. To ensure this SPHINX provides feature of “Distributed Searching”. Today we will look how we will look on SPHINX’s ability to perform distributed searching. If you don’t know what sphinx is please refer [...]

SPHINX get recommended by MySQL Performance Blog

In an recent post famous MySQL Performance blog recommends use of SPHINX for full-text searching. Full-text indexing is one thing that stops most of the people to upgrade to InnoDB storage engine, and leaving MyISAM. The post is focused on what to do with full-text when going to InnoDB. Several solutions are mentioned like Use [...]

Introduction to Sphinx Search

How do you implement full-text search for that 10+ million row table, keep up with the load, and stay relevant? Sphinx is good at those kinds of riddles. Sphinx stands for SQL Phrase Index. It is free, open source, powerful, easy to use, full-text search engine, which comes with apis in PHP and other languages. [...]