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I've been using http://sphinxsearch.com http://sphinxsearch.com for many years. Why should I consider Fist?

• yorwba 7y ago
  There's also Manticore, an actively developed fork of the last open-source version of Sphinx: https://manticoresearch.com/about/ https://manticoresearch.com/about/
  • lokl 7y ago
    Didn't know about this, thanks! I guess Sphinx has worked so well for me that I haven't explored other options lately (except for a brief test of ElasticSearch to see what the buzz was about).
• rurban 7y ago
  I rather keep using xapian. That's a proper indexing and search-engine (C++), much better than sphinx or Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch just has better client integration for things like MS Word or PDF, if you want to jump to the highlighted line in the document.
  • lokl 7y ago
    I haven't looked at Xapian in many years and I can't remember the reason I originally picked Sphinx instead of it. In what ways do you think it is "much better"?
    • rurban 7y ago
      That was my conclusion when I implemented our company search engine. Lucene/Sole was nice, had better frontends, but a horrible backend in Java needing too much memory. Sphinx was small and fast, but lacked all the important additional functionality I needed. Eg. customized ranking, aliases, language detection and stemming, a good Google-like query parser. I probably forgot most, this was 20 years ago.