…: Basically someone is using sphinx to perform search simply on attributes (date, group etc) and get sorted result set and claiming it is… resolve order by. Funny enough to filter by attributes or sort sphinx does not use indexes – indexes are only used for full… document are traversed and priority queue sorting is performed to generate 1.000 best matching results. Quite impressive Yeah I know it…
Post: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters
… time a keyword matches a document, Sphinx needs to resolve an appropriate document and evaluate the result. If your keywords match all… be much much faster. Attributes on the other hand are sort of like unindexed MySQL columns. They are the extra details… reduce the number of results matched significantly. But not the amount of time it takes to do that: sphinx> select * from catalog…

