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Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
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Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
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Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#2Anyone implementing sphinxsearch care to share their experience with us?
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#3Anyone implementing sphinxsearch care to share their experience with us?
We use it on MightyBrand. It's fucking amazing, at least for us. For an example, indexing a couple million items (blog posts, tweets, digg stories...several gigs of data) takes on my Macbook. Full text searches against that data are typically a couple of milliseconds. Getting it setup took all of an hour. Definitely worth installing and playing around with.
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#4Anyone implementing sphinxsearch care to share their experience with us?
Sure thing.
We have a customized sphinxsearch engine powering bug.gd. We can't say enough good things about it. Actually, out of all the open source stack we use, I think I'm most pleased with how robust and solid that piece is specifically. Sphinx is one of those powerful little open source gems that people don't discuss enough. It feels very feature rich and is wicked fast. I don't understand why it gets so little attention overall.
Its reindexing speed is especially good-- I highly recommend it for any service that needs their search index updated quickly. A reindex of 100,000 documents takes about a second-- just fast enough that we could actually do a full reindex on every search if we were that silly.
Supposedly you'll also find it behind craigslist's new search backend and (supposedly) the new whitehouse.gov.
The selfish inkling in me doesn't like talking about Sphinx because it feels like one of those "best kept secrets" that you'd just want to keep to enjoy for yourself-- of course that's silly.
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#5Anyone implementing sphinxsearch care to share their experience with us?
Same thing here, if you do search on your website you should have a look a sphinx. Just because it's so insanely fast (even if you don't do full text search). Once you start using it you'll never look back ;).
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#6How does it compare to Lucene? I use Lucene alot and it fricking rocks.
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#7How does it compare to Lucene? I use Lucene alot and it fricking rocks.
Performance wise they seem pretty similar (althoug I couldn't find any up to date benchmarks), feature wise it depends on what you are looking for. Sphinx has aggregate support and lucene can update the index (sphinx can "only" merge deltas).
If you don't use java already I would always go for sphinx, java adds allot of dependencies/"things you have to take care of".
One neat feature added in this release is that you can connect to sphinx using any mysql client. So there is no need for a specialized client api and you can use it with everything (literally).
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#8http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#sphinxql (connect directly to searchd with any MySQL client)
That might be the coolest feature I've ever heard of. I want to play around with Sphinx now just to use that. For those that know SQL, SphinxQL should make getting up and running rather painless.
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#9Anyone implementing sphinxsearch care to share their experience with us?
Sphinx is awesome. I've been using the "unstable" versions for the past year in production and it's rock solid.
It's also incredibly fast.
Re: Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
#10http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#sphinxql (connect directly to searchd with any MySQL client) That might be the coolest feature I've ever heard of. I want to play around with Sphinx now just to use that. For those that know SQL, SphinxQL should make getting up and running rather painless.
I hadn't seen this feature, that does sound quite cool. Thanks for calling it out.