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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.