Published on 2006-11-25 09:36:41

Key features Sphinx :

• high indexing speed (upto 10 MB/sec on modern CPUs)


• high search speed (avg query is under 0.1 sec on 2-4 GB text collections)


• high scalability (upto 100 GB of text, upto 100 M documents on a single CPU)


• supports distributed searching (since v.0.9.6)


• supports MySQL natively (MyISAM and InnoDB tables are both supported)


• supports phrase searching


• supports phrase proximity ranking, providing good relevance


• supports English and Russian stemming


• supports any number of document fields (weights can be changed on the fly)


• supports document groups


• supports stopwords


• supports different search modes ("match all", "match phrase" and "match any" as of v.0.9.5)


• generic XML interface which grealy simplifies custom integration


• pure-PHP (ie. NO module compiling etc) searchd client API

• indexer: an utility to create fulltext indices;


• search: a simple (test) utility to query fulltext indices from command line;


• searchd: a daemon to search through fulltext indices from external software (such as Web scripts);


• sphinxapi: a set of API libraries for popular Web scripting languages (currently, PHP);

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