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I've heard good things about Lucene, but we use Sphinx: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ For our tests, it indexed much faster than th

by thorax 19y ago

I've heard good things about Lucene, but we use Sphinx: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ For our tests, it indexed much faster than the common Lucene implementations, and for our needs was also a tad faster overall. I haven't tried the newest version, though.

thorax 19y ago
Some random benchmarks: http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/06/benchmarking-results-of-mysql-lucene.html http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/06/benchmarking-results-of... http://pagetracer.com/2008/02/15/sphinx-and-lucene-search-engines-first-impressions/ http://pagetracer.com/2008/02/15/sphinx-and-lucene-search-en...
henning 19y ago
If you're working in Rails and you just want simple search, Sphinx is the fastest path to getting started. I think of Lucene as more implementor-neutral than Sphinx; Lucene is an API as well as a Java library.
nickb 19y ago
I don't know what kind of testing you've done but nothing even approaches the speed of Lucene. It's by far the fastest open source search engine currently available. If you're using Rails, I cannot recommend Solr enough. It's amazing. Cutting's a genius.
- thorax 19y ago
  Do you have references for "nothing even approaches"? Specifically compared to Sphinx? The only comparisons I've found are showing sphinx coming ahead in many indexing/search cases (if only slightly). See my other comment on this thread with links to benchmarks where sphinx clearly "comes close". We did a good bit of research on this, so it does feel odd that you'd say "nothing even approaches". It was also ridiculously easy to get Sphinx up and going. Lucene is a killer engine, no doubt, but Sphinx's ROI alone won us over.
- alice 19y ago
  http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2008/03/17/rails-search-benchmarks/#comment-014 http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2008/03/17/rails-search-...
nreece 19y ago
I've used Sphinx in one of the PHP/MySQL projects, and its much faster than any other (free/open) data indexing platform I've used. Althought configuring Sphinx and getting it to run takes a bit of an effort, but its worth it.

by thorax 19y ago

thorax 19y ago

Some random benchmarks: http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/06/benchmarking-results-of-mysql-lucene.html http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/06/benchmarking-results-of... http://pagetracer.com/2008/02/15/sphinx-and-lucene-search-engines-first-impressions/ http://pagetracer.com/2008/02/15/sphinx-and-lucene-search-en...

henning 19y ago

If you're working in Rails and you just want simple search, Sphinx is the fastest path to getting started. I think of Lucene as more implementor-neutral than Sphinx; Lucene is an API as well as a Java library.

nickb 19y ago

I don't know what kind of testing you've done but nothing even approaches the speed of Lucene. It's by far the fastest open source search engine currently available. If you're using Rails, I cannot recommend Solr enough. It's amazing. Cutting's a genius.

thorax 19y ago
Do you have references for "nothing even approaches"? Specifically compared to Sphinx? The only comparisons I've found are showing sphinx coming ahead in many indexing/search cases (if only slightly). See my other comment on this thread with links to benchmarks where sphinx clearly "comes close". We did a good bit of research on this, so it does feel odd that you'd say "nothing even approaches". It was also ridiculously easy to get Sphinx up and going. Lucene is a killer engine, no doubt, but Sphinx's ROI alone won us over.
alice 19y ago
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2008/03/17/rails-search-benchmarks/#comment-014 http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2008/03/17/rails-search-...

nreece 19y ago

I've used Sphinx in one of the PHP/MySQL projects, and its much faster than any other (free/open) data indexing platform I've used. Althought configuring Sphinx and getting it to run takes a bit of an effort, but its worth it.