… Drizzle day (April 13) Finally there is a first Sphinx Search Day hosted by Sphinx Technologies (April 13) All these events are free…
Post: Community events around Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Post: Full text search for all MySQL Storage Engines
June 26, 2006 By 37 Comments
… in full text search is currently limited only to MyISAM search engine as well as has few other limits. Today Sphinx Search plugin for…, including boolean search and distributed searching. A while ago I already wrote about Sphinx Search Egine, comparing it to built in FullText search and Mnogosearch…
Post: MySQL Full Text Search in Action
February 7, 2008 By 9 Comments
… tuning their MySQL Full Text Search index configuration and setting proper ft_min_word_len value. Searching for Audi A6 will give… at alternative solution, which we’re often using with MySQL – Sphinx Search we still tend to use stop word list for performance… with sphinx because it uses word position based ranking not just frequency based ranking by default which means if you’re searching…
Post: Sphinx: Going Beyond full text search
July 23, 2007 By 18 Comments
… using Sphinx with MySQL for scalable Full Text Search applications. For example on BoardReader we’re using this combination to build search against… SQL databases rather than full text search applications. Group By was added to Sphinx so we could search number of matches per day… other stuff is built with Sphinx. This also uses fair amount of tricks using fake full text search to retrieve all posts…
Post: Talking MySQL to Sphinx
April 19, 2009 By 4 Comments
… in the full text search performance, we already know Sphinx is much faster than MySQL build in full text search. I was rather… approximate – this is geared towards full text search applications when exact number is not important. Sphinx mysql> select max(forum_id) as… will likely stabilize soon. Sphinx also offers number of extensions to the SQL which are helpful for search use cases – WITHIN GROUP…
Post: Sphinx 0.9.8 is released just in time for OSCON 2008
July 20, 2008 By 2 Comments
… actively support Sphinx as in our opinion it is great complement to MySQL when it comes to full text search tasks and… should be the best printed material about Sphinx out there, though as of now Sphinx has surely grown into the size to…. Anyways I’m excited of this new Sphinx milestone, and if you’re using Sphinx, be sure to try this new release…
Post: Sphinx Developer joins our team
January 8, 2007 By 7 Comments
… popular OpenSource full text search software Sphinx joins our team. Andrew will now have more time to dedicate to Sphinx development so cool…. Sphinx is great for high performance high quality or complex full text search applications – but If you’re looking at smaller search applications… of MySQL build in full text search. If there are some features which are missing in Sphinx or it is not best…
Post: MySQL Performance Blog now uses Sphinx for Site Search
February 15, 2008 By 52 Comments
… Blog. Today we have published new search functionality for our site which is based on Sphinx. We have developed it as WordPress… 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…
Post: FaceBook Search, Search for social networks
August 12, 2007 By 4 Comments
… required is simple boolean full text search. Also FaceBook search does not seems to support phrases search, so searching for “Bill Smith” gets you… of course content search, ability for more intelligent searches, at least search for phrases. More interesting filtering would also be good – searching within certain…. We also already make sure Sphinx can be used efficiently to perform queries going beyond full text search. Such as finding the…
Page: Presentations
May 3, 2006 By
… presentations for your company or group. Sphinx search engine for RDBMS Egypt, December 2007 Presentation about Sphinx, the tasks it solves, internals and… we compare it to other opensource full text search search engines such as lucene,sphinx,tbgsearch,sienna, mnogosearch and perform benchmarks. Download Note…
