"Do note that the "total" time spent (e.g., time spent in Ruby, instead of waiting on IO) is much lower for Sphinx than for Solr. For both of them, the socket o

"Do note that the "total" time spent (e.g., time spent in Ruby, instead of waiting on IO) is much lower for Sphinx than for Solr. For both of them, the socket overhead is a constant penalty, and won't increase." Hey, why not write a pure Ruby indexing and search engine? Oh right, because Ruby is too slow.