First of all, Sphinx is fantastic and a majority of people will find it suitable for full-text search, but there are some weaknesses that might make Solr (Lucen

First of all, Sphinx is fantastic and a majority of people will find it suitable for full-text search, but there are some weaknesses that might make Solr (Lucene, really) more powerful and appropriate for full-text: 1.'did-you-mean' support 2. facets 3. replication 4. spell checking 5. auto-complete is easier to implement with Solr 6. Sphinx doesn't return whole documents, only the doc id 7. Sphinx doc ids must be integers