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Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes). As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.
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Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2.
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Commercial license is also available for embedded use.
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Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast,
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size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other
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applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with
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SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources
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support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or
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PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special
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XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).
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As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as
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SQL Phrase Index. Yes, I know about CMU's Sphinx project.
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