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Sphinx

Sphinx, MySQL
Sphinx is live and kicking
02.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

As I have mentioned in my previous post, I have started using Sphinx as a search engine on my site. It was a very exciting week for my site with a record breaking number of visitors. Sphinx has handled it great. I must say that MySQL full text search have done a great job too. […]
Solr, Sphinx, Lucene, PHP, API, MySQL
Sphinx and Lucene search engines, first impressions
02.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

MySQL full text search is the easiest way to provide full text functionality on your site. It is easy to implement and easy to use. You just have to specify MySQL FULLTEXT index, and after that you search the tables with appropriate SQL queries.
However, there are some disadvantages. On a large databases full text search […]