…With Sphinx which talks directly to the MySQL database we can get some 10…. full text search. Also FaceBook search does not seems to support phrases search, so searching for “Bill…best results. Say there were 5.000.000 matches and you fetched 10.000 of them – there well may be some of best matches…
Post: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters
…. Attributes on the other hand are sort of like unindexed MySQL columns. They are the extra details you may want to… attribute for all the records that matched the full text search query. For few hundred thousand of matched records, checking attributes is not… it is definitely not the best use case for Sphinx. When you have full text search keywords that match many documents (and therefore…

