And it still is faster at indexing, as it isn't capable of on-the-fly updates (if something changes, you´ll have to rebuild your index).
I see Sphinx as an option if your full text search functionality isn't that complicated (Sphinx can't do partial matches or fuzzy search) or your indexed models don't change much. Solr is a full blown full text search tool with most of the features you'll see in "enterprise" tools like fuzzy searching (that enables things like Google's "did you mean?" feature), stop words removal, faceting and a simple way to write your own customized filters (and loads of documentations if you need to tweak it). I tried Ferret and it had loads of problems, specially with concurrent access, tried Sphinx but the lack of on-the-fly updates, partial maches (there's a hack to get this working, but it's a hack) and fuzzy search lead me to try Solr and now I have no reason to look back :) - Maurício Linhares http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/ (en) On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > Last time I looked (admittedly a while back) sphinx was noticeably > faster at indexing (eg see > http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2008/03/17/rails-search-benchmarks > and > http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/files/presentations/EuroOSCON2006-High-Performance-FullText-Search.pdf > ). > > As far as the original question goes Sphinx doesn't have to be able to > talk to your database if you can provide a command line tool that will > produce an appropriately formatted xml stream for sphinx. > > Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
