Published on 2006-11-25 09:36:41
Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML format.
What is great with Sphinx that it came with a pure-PHP searchd client API, this will make its integration with PHP application much more easier. In addition to many features that make Sphinx a very interesting alternative to an open source SQL full-text search engine.
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