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Sphinx is a standalone search engine application that can be integrated with your data sources to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions.

To clear how powerful it is, Sphinx is already used in BlogCatalog, Joomla & phpBB community forums and more.

Sphinx currently supports:

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • XML Pipe mechanism that allows indexing of XML data

Sphinx

Some features of Sphinx:

  • high indexing speed (up to 10 MB/sec on modern CPUs)
  • high search speed (avg query is under 0.1 sec on 2-4 GB text collections)
  • high scalability (up to 100 GB of text, upto 100 M documents on a single CPU)
  • supports distributed searching (since v.0.9.6)
  • supports phrase proximity ranking, providing good relevance
  • supports any number of document fields (weights can be changed on the fly)
  • supports different search modes ("match all", "match phrase" and "match any" as of v.0.9.5)
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