> > A decent search option is Lucene via acts_as_solr plugin. > > I never used Sphynx though. Can anyone with firsthand experience of > > both Lucene and Sphynx give their opinion? > > ... > We have a bunch of clients using solr as well. In general it is more > powerful then sphinx but a lot slower to reindex and querey. Also it > uses 50 times the memory of sphinx. If you have a box or vm to put > SOLR on by itself then it is a good option as well. but if sphinx can > do everything you need from a a search indexer then it is a way better > option cost wise.
I don't have first hand experiences with sphinx, but i can confirm that given a decent hw setup solr (with acts_as_solr) is really good (not only in terms of performance but also of flexibility, and functionality). We used it for miojob.it and it powers almost any aspect of that site, which is built around faceted browsing of job postings and has a only a few spots where caching was appropriate without sweating under a traffic which is in the multi hundred K hits per day (i don't have the real numbers) Anyhow given the lower system requirements, I'd like to give a try to sphinx to see what can it do! cheers, Luca Mearelli http://spazidigitali.com - http://kiaraservice.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
