Sphinx 0.9.1

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Copyright (c) 2001-2005, Andrew Aksyonoff

Distributed under GPL; see the file COPYING for details

Overview

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Sphinx is a search engine primarily intended to search through

SQL databases, though generally applicable to searching anything else.

Sphinx consists of the following parts:

- full-text indexing/searching library written in C++

- a set of generic utilities built on top of that library:

- indexer, an utility to creates full-text indices

- searchd, a daemon to run queries remotely (eg. from PHP/perl scripts)

- search, a console utility to run queries from command line

- searchd APIs for different languages (currently, PHP)

Features

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- high indexing speed (upto 4000-6000 KB/sec on modern CPUs);

- high search speed (avg query is 0.1 sec on 2-4 GB text collections);

- high scalability (upto 100 GB of text, upto 100 M documents on a single CPU);

- supports MySQL natively (MyISAM and InnoDB tables are both supported);

- supports phrase searching;

- supports phrase proximity ranking, providing very good relevance;

- supports English and Russian stemming;

- supports any number of document fields (weights can be changed on the fly);

- supports document groups;

- supports stopwords;

- supports "match all" and "match any" search modes;

- generic XML interface which grealy simplifies custom integration.

Where to get it?

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Sphinx can be obtained through official project website at

http://shodan.ru/projects/sphinx/

How do I use it?

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Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions and

a quick guide to using Sphinx.

License

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program; if not, visit http://www.gnu.org/ or write

to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,

Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

If you don't want to be restricted by GNU GPL terms,

please contact the author through http://shodan.ru/contact/

to obtain a commercial license.

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