As somebody that has used both quite a bit in the last year, I have to disagree. Compared to Elastic Search, Sphinx is harder to install and configure, harder t

As somebody that has used both quite a bit in the last year, I have to disagree. Compared to Elastic Search, Sphinx is harder to install and configure, harder to scale, harder to work with, offers fewer features and is improving more slowly. It might have been a competitor a few years ago, but now I can't see any reason to choose it.