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]]> http://pagetracer.com/2008/02/15/sphinx-and-lucene-search-engines-first-impressions/#comment-31 Rob Young Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:31:18 +0000 http://pagetracer.com/2008/02/15/sphinx-and-lucene-search-engines-first-impressions/#comment-31 I'm working on a search abstraction layer called <a title="Forage Search Abstraction" href="http://code.google.com/p/forage" rel="nofollow">Forage</a> which supports <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/" title="Solr Enterprise Search Server" rel="nofollow">Solr</a>, <a href="http://www.xapian.org/" title="The Xapian Project" rel="nofollow">Xapian</a> and <acronym title="Zend Search Lucene">ZSL</acronym> so far and will support Sphynx searching in the near future. I can confirm that ZSL doesn't really cut it if you have anything more than a small index size or you are taking a large number of requests, we've gone with Solr here and it's working very well. One of the coolest things about Solr is the extra features it provides such as faceting. I’m working on a search abstraction layer called Forage which supports Solr, Xapian and ZSL so far and will support Sphynx searching in the near future. I can confirm that ZSL doesn’t really cut it if you have anything more than a small index size or you are taking a large number of requests, we’ve gone with Solr here and it’s working very well. One of the coolest things about Solr is the extra features it provides such as faceting.

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