February 15, 2008

MySQL Performance Blog now uses Sphinx for Site Search

Posted by peter |

I never liked how build in Wordpress search works. it shows full documents rather than snippets it does not search comments and it does not have any query language so I always used Google search if I wanted to find something on MySQL Performance Blog.

Today we have published new search functionality for our site which is based on Sphinx. We have developed it as WordPress plugin which will be available as open source software in a few weeks – just want to test it a bit more and write proper documentation before announcing. If you would like to test it however let us know.

As you can see search functionality allows you to specify what would you like to search (Posts, Pages or Comments) as well as if you would like to sort results be relevance of freshness. You can also use query standard Sphinx query language to search phrases or Search MyISAM in post title.

Besides basic search functionality we’ve implemented list of last searches and Top searches which if both nice for fun and for SEO.

Hope this addition will make MySQL Performance Blog more useful for you.

UPDATE: For those looking to download plugin code it is here:
https://launchpad.net/wp-sphinx-plugin/+download

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44 Comments »

  1. 1. Evan

    Can the Sphinx plugin work on Wordpress-MU?

    Comment :: February 15, 2008 @ 3:00 pm

  2. 2. Carpii

    Great to see you using Sphinx. I always used google to search your site too, but it was never that convenient

    Comment :: February 15, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

  3. 3. peter

    Even,

    I do not know about WordPress-MU it likely would need some work.

    Comment :: February 15, 2008 @ 3:52 pm

  4. 4. paolo

    Hi guys,

    I’m experiencing some performance issues with full-text indexes on MySQL, and I’m actually studying Sphinx as an alternative. On some tests I’ve done, I see a good performance, but was wondering ifyou could share some benchmarks comparing the two systems on your case. It would help me a lot to sell this change internally ;)

    Comment :: February 16, 2008 @ 4:17 am

  5. 5. samuel

    Wow that’s great.

    I’ve heard that you have to use cronjob to make its indexes update periodically.
    Is there any search engine support that for realtime indexes ? That would be great.

    Comment :: February 16, 2008 @ 4:30 am

  6. 6. milos

    Sphinx WP plugin sounds great. Usually all WP plugins works with WP-MU, but I don’t know how your plugin works. In WP-MU, tables are numbered, for example wp_1_posts, wp_2_posts etc. I believe you would just have to configure Sphinx index for each blog in Sphinx config and that is it.

    @samule Yes, there is a Lucene search engine but Sphinx is really great once you set it up right, with all updates etc.

    Comment :: February 16, 2008 @ 6:28 am

  7. 7. peter

    Right it uses cron to update indexes which is good enough for the task.

    Sphinx will support real time updates in the future. It just takes a time to implement it without performance sacrifices.

    Comment :: February 17, 2008 @ 9:53 am

  8. 8. Aurimas Mikalauskas

    Nice work, team!

    Comment :: February 18, 2008 @ 4:17 am

  9. 9. peter

    Paolo,

    Please check presentation page. It has full text search benchmarks for Sphinx/Lucene/MySQL FT. Though all of them are somethat improved and we need to redo them the general idea stays the same.

    Comment :: February 19, 2008 @ 11:35 am

  10. 10. paolo

    Thanks Peter… Sorry, I hadn’t noticed the link before.
    I’m a new fan of the blog ;)
    Keep up with the good work.

    Comment :: February 19, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

  11. 11. directory

    Ein wirklich sehr Interessante Seite mit guten Informationen.

    Comment :: February 20, 2008 @ 12:17 pm

  12. 12. Thanh Hoàng

    Test for fulltext search with Sphinx : Địt con mẹ…Không biết Sphinx có tìm kiếm được cái này không nhỉ ?

    Comment :: February 22, 2008 @ 9:43 am

  13. 13. Thanh Hoàng

    Can’t search with keyword : “Địt”

    Comment :: February 22, 2008 @ 9:51 am

  14. 14. peter

    Thanh,

    Thank you. I will check how our encoding tables are set up. For this blog we were mainly looking for english search.

    Comment :: February 22, 2008 @ 10:04 am

  15. 15. Hi Vietname

    Hi Peter

    I hope Sphinx can support Unicode and Vietnamese.
    “Địt con mẹ” -> Vietnamese

    Comment :: February 24, 2008 @ 9:19 pm

  16. 16. Xaprb

    The new search is nice to use. I especially like the phrase proximity relevance, so I see “group commit” results before results that have both “group” and “commit” somewhere in them. :o )

    Comment :: February 24, 2008 @ 9:33 pm

  17. 17. peter

    Thanks Baron, Yes phrase proximity really helps with ranking in many cases.
    Group commit is a good example as both GROUP and COMMIT are frequent terms in SQL scripts :)

    Comment :: February 24, 2008 @ 10:05 pm

  18. 18. peter

    We just updated sphinx tables now to be unicode and now Địt con mẹ is searchable whatever than means :)

    Comment :: February 25, 2008 @ 10:30 am

  19. 19. Hi Vietname

    Tks Peter,
    Good job.

    Comment :: February 25, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

  20. 20. fukVietnamese

    peter,

    “Địt con mẹ” mean “Fuck You” in Vietnamese

    Comment :: March 8, 2008 @ 7:14 am

  21. 21. fukVietnamese

    I mistake,

    It mean “Fuck your mother”

    Vietnamese very uncultivated!

    Comment :: March 8, 2008 @ 7:17 am

  22. 22. Thanh Hoàng

    test for “Đ”.No fuk.
    Tks Peter.

    Comment :: March 8, 2008 @ 9:27 am

  23. 23. freeware blackjack kasino

    My English not so good but thank for lovely site with information I looking for and need also.

    Comment :: March 15, 2008 @ 4:43 pm

  24. 24. Raymond

    Sphinx is a wonderful full text engine and I recommend anyone wanting great flexibility and performance for full text searches to check it out! I am happy to hear about the Wordpress plugin. Great blog BTW!

    Comment :: March 17, 2008 @ 12:27 pm

  25. 25. Evan

    Is the plugin available yet?

    Comment :: March 31, 2008 @ 8:39 pm

  26. 26. peter

    Evan,

    It is coming if you’re interested I can hook you up with developer for beta testing.

    Comment :: March 31, 2008 @ 8:53 pm

  27. 27. Evan

    I’d like that, although I need it for Wordpress-MU in an integrated environment with another site, so I’m not sure that I can give much useful feedback for the standard case.

    Comment :: April 1, 2008 @ 1:40 pm

  28. 28. Aikaz

    It is likely to be little bit complicated for me to implement. Is there any simple thing other thank Sphinx? But It is worth to try.

    Comment :: May 16, 2008 @ 4:02 pm

  29. 29. Tournier

    Hey, I’d like to know how you have handled the very recent post in the index. Are they directly available for search ?
    thanks,

    pierre-yves

    Comment :: June 13, 2008 @ 3:02 am

  30. 30. Patrick

    Hi, This sounds great. I’ve wanted to fix my wordpress search for awhile now. Can I check out the beta version of the Sphinx plugin? I’d love to play around with it on my local instance.

    Comment :: June 22, 2008 @ 11:45 am

  31. 31. ceiling roses

    nice work , very interesting :) thanks

    Comment :: July 24, 2008 @ 12:05 pm

  32. 32. Lisa

    Is your Wordpress search plugin available for use by the general public? If so, where can it be downloaded?

    Comment :: July 26, 2008 @ 11:47 am

  33. 33. office clearance london

    I think is nice site keep it on , very good

    Comment :: July 29, 2008 @ 1:31 am

  34. 34. amica

    Thank you, friends, for your sharing your ideas

    Comment :: July 30, 2008 @ 8:04 pm

  35. 35. aarp dental insurance

    Great site! Best wishes!

    Comment :: August 11, 2008 @ 12:28 am

  36. 36. william

    great idea I was looking for this solution,where I sign for beta test?

    Comment :: September 4, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

  37. 37. Jordi Prats

    This have been already released? I can’t find it neither on this blog neither on wordpress pluguins list… If it haven’t been released can I beta test it? I would be glad of it :)

    Jordi

    Comment :: September 25, 2008 @ 9:58 am

  38. 38. Ed

    Where can I download the WordPress plugin?

    Comment :: October 16, 2008 @ 10:47 am

  39. 39. peter

    Still not published. I passed your comment to developer so he might send you distribution as we have it now.

    Comment :: October 17, 2008 @ 12:56 am

  40. 40. yann

    Hi,

    I’m also very interested in this project. Is it possible to have a distribution of this engine ?
    Thanks

    Comment :: November 12, 2008 @ 5:00 am

  41. 41. Philippe

    Hi,

    I would be very interested into beta testing it as well,

    Thanks!

    Comment :: December 15, 2008 @ 12:25 pm

  42. 42. Walter

    Any new Status for the Wordpress Plugin? Any chances to get in contact with the original author?

    Comment :: February 20, 2009 @ 2:33 am

  43. 43. peter

    Walter
    It is here:
    https://launchpad.net/wp-sphinx-plugin/+download

    Comment :: February 20, 2009 @ 4:08 pm

  44. 44. Kash

    Hi there,

    This is exactly what I have been searching for :) I downloaded the plugin and uploaded to my Wordpress 2.7 site. Unfortunately I got the error below when trying to activate

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/dubaijob/public_html/dev/wp-content/plugins/wp-sphinx-plugin-1.0.tar.gz on line 45

    Can anyone help at all, please?

    Thanks

    Kash

    Comment :: March 19, 2009 @ 10:37 am

 

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