fwiw, i found sphinx when looking to replace a client's awful half-arsed search implementation (over 10 years of data, with 30-50 new items being added daily),

fwiw, i found sphinx when looking to replace a client's awful half-arsed search implementation (over 10 years of data, with 30-50 new items being added daily), for someone who has only very seldom futzed w/ java, it was much easier and sane to audition sphinx first, instead of lucene or solr. i'd still love to take solr for a test drive, but sphinx has covered all my needs so far.