June 20, 2013

Post: Sphinx Developer joins our team

Andrew Aksyonoff, developer of popular OpenSource full text search software Sphinx joins our team. Andrew will now have more time to dedicate to Sphinx development so cool new features will come sooner. Having Andrew

Post: Sphinx 0.9.8 reaches RC stage, Docs updated

Andrew Aksenoff is pretty slow with release numbers for Sphinx. By MySQL Users Conference 2007 Sphinx version 0.9.7 was released and… portions. Sphinx 0.9.8 snapshots were more stable than 0.9.7 for a long time but I guess Andrew did… Conference. BTW Andrew will be speaking at MySQL Users Conference so if you wanted to learn more about Sphinx it is great…

Post: Sphinx 0.9.8 is released just in time for OSCON 2008

…. Sphinx will be presented this year on OSCON as .ORG Exhibitor, with me running the show – it was too expensive for Andrew to come from Russia, especially as he did not get a session at OSCON. It is also worth to note Sphinx… should be the best printed material about Sphinx out there, though as of now Sphinx has surely grown into the size to…

Post: Andrew Aksyonoff does Sphinx Talk in Moscow

… way to MySQL Users Conference Andrew will stop by in Moscow, Russia and give a talk about Sphinx current features, development plans… even same room which I used to study. P.S Andrew will stay for some time in the SF Bay Area… so if there is anyone who would like to meet Andrew in person let me know. Depending on number of people…

Post: First Sphinx Conference is Announced

… be giving a talk on this conference focused on using Sphinx Together and instead of MySQL. There are going to be number of talks which describe Sphinx deployment alongside with MySQL so this conference should be interested…. This is going to be predominately Russian speaking event. Sphinx Founder – Andrew Aksyonoff speaks Russian and so do I. At the same…

Post: Using Sphinx as MySQL data retrieval accelerator

… following thread couple of days ago: Basically someone is using sphinx to perform search simply on attributes (date, group etc) and…. Now what I’m hoping for as developments: Andrew to continue improving sphinx so it would have more advanced filtering clauses and… to retrieve by filters only with no full text query. Sphinx should not be replacement for Database Server but for many…

Comment: Using Sphinx as MySQL data retrieval accelerator

I’m very happy with Sphinx (Andrew Aksyonoff thank you a lot for that !), it doesn’t … mysql takes half less cpu..). I really recomand to everyone Sphinx, a very very fast thing !

Post: Can we get faster expression handling in MySQL

Andrew from Sphinx continues to work on improving SQL (or SphinxQL) support and now he published benchmarks comparing arithmetic expression handling in Sphinx to one in MySQL. The result ? Sphinx scored 3x to 20x faster. Andrew goes to explain results…

Post: Introducing our Percona Live speakers

… lead. Now he’s the director of Professional Services at Sphinx. If I can paraphrase his session, I’d say it… the things you don’t know about Sphinx’s capabilities. Many people think of Sphinx as a great search engine, but it… time to mention that Sphinx’s author Andrew Aksyonoff just published a book on Sphinx with O’Reilly! Congratulations Andrew. It’s in my…

Post: Meet MySQL Performance Blog guys on MySQL Users Conference

… this year. We have me (Peter), Vadim, Aurimas, Baron and Andrew attending the show. Alexey had to stay because he could… here is list of sessions we have: Sphinx: High Performance Full Text Search for MySQL (Andrew) EXPLAIN Demystified (Baron) The MySQL Query…-Shirt or Sphinx T-Shirt let one of us know. Andrew and Aurimas will be on on .org Both for Sphinx project showing…