Comparing Compilers

We all want to see Sphinx run as fast as possible. How do different compilers impact Sphinx’s performance? We imagine that many of you are using the default compilers available on your machines. Is this wise? With some simple testing we confirmed that certain compilers are friendlier to Sphinx’s performance than others. When even small performance gains are a big issue, be mindful of your compiler!

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Sphinx 2.1: JSON Attributes

We’re delighted to announce that Sphinx 2.1 begins support of JSON attributes. While complete support is yet to come (some quirks and limitations are yet to be ironed out), we consider this to be a major step ahead. Storing sparse key-value data is no longer a fundamental issue in Sphinx!
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A new tool in the trunk: wordbreaker

In 2.1.1, Sphinx’s main application brings not only new features, but also a handy new tool: wordbreaker. As its name suggests, wordbreaker splits long words into several smaller words. This tool has many applications, but in this post we’ll focus on breaking apart URLs. Read more…

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SphinxQL 2.1.1 Cheat Sheet

In preparation for the release of Sphinx 2.1.1, we’re posting this SphinxQL “Cheat Sheet” to give you a taste of what to  expect. Brief summary: we added GROUPBY() that returns a grouping key (pretty useful with MVAs), GROUP_CONCAT(), EXIST() to let you query sets of indexes with both existent and non-existent columns, LIKE ‘%substring%’ clause support to SHOW and other statements that can dump a lot of data, added more statistics to SHOW META and a new SHOW INDEX STATUS statement, added UPDATE … OPTION ignore_nonexistent_columns, and a few more things like subselects that we’re going to discuss in the future posts.

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RealTime Index Improvements in 2.1.1

We are proud to announce that the Sphinx 2.1.x tree has been finalized. Sphinx 2.1.1-beta will be released in the very near future! We were so excited about the work we’ve accomplished that we couldn’t wait to start sharing some of the new features that will be included in 2.1 series.

We will start off this series of posts with something that got a lot of love in 2.1 series: RealTime (RT) Indexes.
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Highlighting some changes in Sphinx 2.0.7

Can’t wait to dig into Sphinx 2.0.7? Here’s a sneak peek at some of our activities:

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Sphinx Wiki Updates – User Generated Content

How long has it been since you’ve visited the Sphinx Wiki Page?

Or, have you even heard about this resource?

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