Introduction to Search with Sphinx

Introduction to Search with Sphinx

by Andrew Aksyonoff
3/5
(17 votes)

This concise introduction to Sphinx shows you how to use this free software to index an enormous number of documents and provide fast results to both simple and complex searches.

Written by the creator of Sphinx, this authoritative book is short and to th.

First published
2011
Publishers
O'Reilly Media· Incorporated
Subjects
Database searching·Internet searching

This is a good article to introduce the basic searching methods. This book also includes; the basic indexing, ranking function as know as BM25.

I read the book only after I created an application which indexes a very large (1TB) PostgreSQL database. I also have 10 years of experience with Oracle*Text under my belt.

Introduction to Search with Sphinx is a short (127 pages in the e-book edition) text describing some of the potential uses for the Sphinx search server. After a brief exposition on the "world of text search", which defines some search-related terms and concepts, it's off to install Sphinx and perform required configuration, then delving into running searches, index maintenance and ranking results.

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