June 19, 2013

Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: The talks I want to see

… the very bottom for the chance to win a free full pass to the conference! When picking talks to attend, I… moved to Sphinx - (Vladimir Fedorkov, PalominoDB) Now that Innodb supports Full-text indexing, I’m interested in other good discussion points about when…

Comment: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters

… like Sphinx could be made to automagically use Fastbit to index low-selectivity words… For my relatively-low-volume insert-only… (private trouble ticket messages), I’ll probably go for regular full-text indexing (probably Sphinx or MySQL), sharded by year. And let users…

Comment: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters

A full text index maps lexical tokens to documents. So when you do a boolean AND against a FTS index of just about any…

Comment: How to load large files safely into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE

Only MyISAM supports full-text indexing in MySQL. If you have a lot of content to index (bigger than your available memory) and you need high performance, you probably need an external solution such as Sphinx or Lucene. Sphinx has a storage engine for easy integration with MySQL.

Comment: Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 - Beta release

We’ll I’m not going to wait for 5.6, just wishing it was out already. The thing I want most is the built in Full Text indexing, of course I would probably use Sphinx for larger projects. I will be testing out 2.x (I have 1.x in production now) when I get some time (3 or 4 weeks from now).

Comment: InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon benchmarks - part 1

[...] be making a mistake. InnoDB is superior in several areas (Reliability, Backups, Foreign Keys, and Performance in many situations) and while maybe not always the best option (Full Text Indexing), you should know why you’re [...]

Comment: How to load large files safely into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE

What’s the best way to load lots of large and small files for full text indexing? Which database engine is best suited for FTI? of large files?

Comment: MySQL Performance Blog now uses Sphinx for Site Search

Hi guys, I’m experiencing some performance issues with full-text indexes on MySQL, and I’m actually studying Sphinx as an …

Comment: MySQL Error control changes

Innodb does not support full text indexes, the work is on a way thought. For smaller projects you can use shadow MyISAM table, for larger I would use sphinx (http://www.sphinxsearch.com)

Comment: MySQL Error control changes

“o I’ve seen people thinking they have converted things to Innodb while they really did not because it was substituted back to MyISAM.” What about full text indexes in InnoDB?