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Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version |
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2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. |
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Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed from the |
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ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and |
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integration simplicity in mind. It's written in C++ and works on Linux |
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(RedHat, Ubuntu, etc), Windows, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and a few |
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other systems. |
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Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, |
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size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other |
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applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL |
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databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources |
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support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or from |
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an XML pipe. |
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Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL |
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database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly easily and or index and |
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search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as with a |
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database server. |
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As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as |
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SQL Phrase Index. |
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A variety of text processing features enable fine-tuning Sphinx for |
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your particular application requirements, and a number of relevance |
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functions ensures you can tweak search quality as well. |
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WWW: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ |
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Searching via SphinxAPI is as simple as 3 lines of code, and querying |
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via SphinxQL is even simpler, with search queries expressed in good |
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old SQL. |
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Sphinx clusters scale up to billions of documents and tens of millions |
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search queries per day, powering top websites such as Craigslist, |
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DailyMotion, NetLog, etc. |
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And last but not least, it's open-sourced under GPLv2, and the |
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community edition is free to use. |
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WWW: http://sphinxsearch.com/ |
