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
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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