Open Source Search Server
Open Source Search Server
Powered-By Sphinx
Below you will find the 317 brave souls that let us know about their use of Sphinx Search. Rest assured there are more in the queue patiently waiting their turn to be processed and even a greater number who have yet to let us know about their use of Sphinx. If you would like to join this prestigious list and more importantly tell the world about your use of Sphinx, please let us know by filling out our Powered-By Questionnaire.
We have attempted to sort this list based on industry classifications and Alexa ranking. For the curious, you will find that if you hover mouse over the many links below, magically the Alexa rank, information, a quote, or all the above will appear, so have fun!
Some Highlights:
Biggest one: This company has long held the title of the largest known Sphinx installation. Although it has seen challengers such as Infegy who is indexing/searching more than 9 Billion docs with Sphinx.
Boardreader.com a forum search engine that indexes over 16 billion documents in other words over 5 TB of data on approximately 37 boxes.
Busiest one: This company has yet to see a worthy challenger to their illustrious title of Busiest Sphinx installation.
Craigslist.org, a free classified ads site, is rumored to fire around 200,000,000 million queries/day against Sphinx. If you do the math, that averages out to be over 2,000 queries/sec. Believe it or not, this is accomplished with 15 clustered Sphinx boxes, and at peak times only consumes a 1/4 of their total capacity.
| Software & Open Source | Media | Boardreader.com | Now indexing over 2,000,000,000 documents (yes, that's two billion, and it was 1 billion a year ago), BoardReader forum search engine is the biggest Sphinx installation that we're aware of. (Pedantic mode on: in terms of data size, there are busier installations in terms of queries). |
| Digital Point | Dailymotion.com | Phpbb.com | The largest webmaster forum, toolset and marketplace on the net. DailyMotion, a video-sharing site, is the largest known SphinxSE deployment to date (with 40+ of MySQL+SphinxSE boxes). phpBB, one of the leading forum software projects, employs Sphinx to search through its 2.6 million post community area. |
| Joomla.org | Hubpages.com | CouchSurfing.org | Joomla, popular open-source content management system project, managed to improve search through their 700,000-post forum. HubPages is a social content community where everyday experts communicate their knowledge while earning an income. Sphinx has powered HubPages search since 2008 and currently performs 700+ queries a second on indexes totaling more than 36 million items. Offers profile listing, discussion groups and a place to arrange free accommodations around the world. |
| MySQL.com | Scribd.com | Folkd.com | MySQL AB, the makers of leading open-source database software, uses Sphinx to search through their internal Eventum installation. A digital documents library that allows users to publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents in various languages. "folkd.com is one of the bigger social-bookmarking and social-search websites with over 10 million bookmarks. We switched from lucene to Sphinx and never looked back." |
| Motime.com | Metacafe | Simplemachines.org | Value added services for Mobile Devices. Metacafe is a community based video sharing web site that specializes in short-form original entertainment where users upload, view and share video clips. Simple Machines are successfully using Sphinx to power the search engine on their forums. |
| Percona | Izlesene.com | Identi.ca | They are the MySQL performance experts, and often recommend Sphinx Search as an alternative to MySQL Full-text search. "Using Sphinx to power our full text search engines and also replacing heavy mysql queries. Thank You Sphinx!" |
| Ivinco | Indowebster | Bloglovin.com | Ivinco, focuses on frontend development and deployment of the Sphinx Search Engine. "Using Sphinx for two years with great results." "I just wanted you to know that bloglovin.com utilises sphinx to power it searches in our lists of more than 2 million blogs. Without Sphinx, this would be a lot harder to do." |
| Freshfolder.com | Baomoi.com | PeekYou.com | Searchable software directory featuring over 50000 shareware and freeware downloads for Windows. Baomoi.com is the No.1 online news aggregators in Vietnam with 1.5M daily pageviews. "We currently have around 250million records and that's not counting tags, links, etc... The main reason we are using sphinx is its speed." |
| HPPG: High Performance Photo Gallery | COLOURlovers | RCGroups.com | "I'm very happy with the Sphinx project. I have been using it for about 2 or 3 years." "We recently started using Sphinx to power our Color, Palette and Pattern searches. It's incredibly fast and will scale much better than mysql!" RCGroups, the most active R/C community on the Internet, 10.6 million posts, Sphinx powered. |
| Fusemetrix.com | Neowin.net | Forum.Vingrad.ru | FuseMetrix, a web based office systems provider, uses Sphinx for email searches. They have a range of clients who have anything from a couple of hundred emails to many millions, and Sphinx makes 'em "blinding fast"! neowin.net, Windows news website, 7.0 million posts in the forum. Vingrad, a major Russian programming portal, now uses Sphinx to search through its forum. |
| Logzilla LLC | Truveo | Redandwhitekop.com | LogZilla utilizes Sphinx for their scalable, multi-vendor, Enterprise Class syslog event viewer for centralized network event and problem management. "We are using a heavily modified version of Sphinx. I think we are probably the largest Sphinx installation out there with some 1,000 search nodes partitioned into 64 different notes with over 500 million records from a db that is approximately a terabyte in size. We also use Hadoop to generate Sphinx indexes. Our response time is on the order of 40ms." "We've been using Sphinx for about 10 months now to search through 3.5 million posts and it works great. Before Sphinx, dealing with searches was a nightmare." |
| EMBTRAK.com | Goear.com | Diskusjon.no | Uses Sphinx for their website and not for their distributed instances. Online Music Platform. Diskusjon.no, Norway's second largest discussion board with ~10 million posts, 120K members and 6-10K new posts daily, is now also search-powered by Sphinx. |
| Travel & Hospitality | Kendincos.net | Geekstogo.com | "We are using an external PHP API to fetch results from Sphinx. We are students from Turkey trying to develop a video search service by adding videos to our database via our web crawl bot. We are very happy to use Sphinx :)" GeeksToGo.com, free computer help and tech support forum, 1.3 million posts, 250K members. Recently moved to a new server, and didn't install Sphinx until about noon. Here's the resulting load graph.. by far the biggest single change in terms of forums performance. |
| straus.nl | All4Divx | OMGPOP.com | This is a travel web site where people can search for a holiday vacation destination. Using Sphinx to search 3,000,000 subtitles. OMGPOP started in 2006 as iminlikewithyou and has been making real time games ever since. Millions of members log in every day to play games, hang out in chat, share photos on picture club and meet new friends. Their leaderboards are powered by Sphinx. |
| Tjingo | naslovi.net | Teenspot.com | "Sphinx is mainly used to filter trips and create the needed drop down lists. This was way to slow in MySQL, since the needed indexes on certain tables would drastically degrade write performance on the table. Now we use Sphinx to index the table and are able to keep the MySQL table indexes low. Sphinx is easily setup, has distributed capabilities (easy scaling) and a big plus: open source. Bug / problem response times are excellent and the community behind sphinx is also helpful." Naslovi, most popular news search engine and aggregation site in Serbia with 50.000+ daily visits switched to Sphinx for its speed and the quality of results. TeenSpot, 1.9 million member teen community, has (rumours have some 10+ times figures) improved member search using Sphinx, even though its not always fulltext. |
| BookMyBest | Ephotozine | DPChallenge.com | BookMyBest compare prices for more than 200,000 hotels worldwide from 22 providers. They use Sphinx 2.0.1 with MySQL(Percona) 5.5 "The point is that Sphinx is better than mysql fulltext -> faster and better results. We have results like this from our forum returned 1000 matches of 2504 total in 0.001 sec which has 79568 topics and 1387746 comments." DPChallenge, a site dedicated to digital photography contests, searches through its 1.5 million post forum and 0.5 million image gallery. |
| Campingsclick.com | PDFcast.org | GirlsAskGuys.com | Spanish online camping reservation/search services. "It only took me 2 hours to install and implement Sphinx into codeigniter PHP framework by calling the PHP API." GirlsAskGuys.com is the #1 website dedicated to men & women behavior, their interaction with each other and their different views on any and all topics. |
| Blavel.com | Graphicleftovers.com | Allmystery | Blavel, a site to post travel blogs and photos, implements location autocompletion by AJAX-searching over 6,600,000 geographical location names. (In addition to site search that indexes a bit less objects.. for now.) "GraphicLeftovers.com is a growing royalty free stock image marketplace that uses Sphinx Search on the backend. We index titles, descriptions, and tags, and we use the extended matching for more popular images, more popular artists, and how recent an item is." "Allmystery has about 6.000.000 board posts and about 500.000 blog posts Germany's biggest mystery community. Our hardest problem in the last years was implementing a fast and easy realtime search. We were so lucky when we discovered Sphinx Search. The performance is impressive! Thank you for your awesome software!" Dennis Kort |
| Myfunvacationproperties.com | Elbo.ws | Bokt.nl | Myfunvacationproperties.com provides property listings including, but not limited to, sales, rental, commercial, and residential properties. Elbo.ws, Music Blog Aggregator, reports discovering new Sphinx uses for its 400,000-post archive on a regular basis. bokt.nl has a search facility for its 28.0 million-post forum dedicated to horses. |
| Web | PantherMedia | Informationsarchiv.net | Free Photocommunity and Stock Agency for royalty free image. Informationsarchiv.net is a Q&A site using Sphinx for search. The site has a single index to search topics and articles. Related topics and related articles are calculated using Sphinx as well. |
| Opensubtitles.org | Get-music.net | it.blogbabel.com | One of the biggest subtitles sites, containing more than 330,000 subtitles, is using Sphinx. Get-Music.net and Get-Lyric.net are search engines over 260,000 songs and 1,200,000 song lyrics respectively. Italian blog search engine, using Sphinx for faceted search over about 3,000,000 posts. |
| Trade Bit | wasalive.com | pbnation.com | Platform to publish and sell digital goods like ebooks, music or pictures. WASAlive scans more than 150K news providers and has a database of 8M news entries. Searchable instantly. PbNation is a site dedicated to the sport of Paintball. |
| chow.com | Simply Audiobooks | Assistly | chow.com, a CNET site dedicated to cooking, is now powered by Sphinx. "We just converted our website to use Sphinx from a MySQL fulltext search." Assistly utilizes Sphinx for search so that it can provide what the company calls ?awesomely responsive? customer service. They are a hosted, cloud-based customer service platform that scales from small business to large enterprises. |
| Dir.bg | CGFinal.com | blogReaction.com | Dir.Bg, the biggest Bulgarian portal, uses Sphinx to search through, well, everything. CGFinal.com, which is a Chinese computer graphics site with over 250,000 members, now uses Sphinx to search CG tutorials, information and artists's images. Provides a blogging network combined with free blog hosting on a customized platform. Features include search engine optimization and social sharing. |
| Asmallworld.net | Imagetrail.net | Hawkee.com | aSmallWorld, gated online neighbourhood for its 770,000 users, utilizes Sphinx for different kinds of (secret) searches. Imagetrail.net is a search engine for professional stock photography. It indexes mutliple agencies and then combines duplicates by looking at the metadata and the thumbnails. It employed MySQL full text search before, but with database coming to 1 million images searches for even moderately frequent words hit 3-6 seconds. They're back down to under 1 second now. Guess why. mIRC script resource site with scripting tips, articles and downloads. |
| Job.Ru | Captureshot | forumowisko.pl | One of Russia's Largest Job Sites. "I use sphinx on two of my projects: http://getcomicstrips.com and more recently http://captureshot.com Sphinx is really good and fast. Thank you very much!" Olivier Yiptong Adding another language to those which Sphinx speaks in, forumowisko.pl indexes 930,000 posts in Polish. |
| Gamershell.com | Slides.bg | Tweetcepts.com | GamersHell.com - Largest Independent VideoGaming Website "We are using Sphinx 1.10 to index and search through text representation of the documents and presentations. We use Debian Squeeze with MariaDB and SphinxSE and some SphinxQL and Sphinx API functions. The query performance is great, that's why we've chosen Sphinx :)" "Currently searching / indexing 10 million objects (only a month old, hoping to hit 100 million by a year old). Couldn't have built it without Sphinx. Thanks so much! We saw a 25 to 50 fold speed increase in moving search to Sphinx." |
| All4divx.com | Vxv.com | Stockopedia | Using Sphinx to search 3,000,000 subtitles. VXV, local Argentinian video hosting, provides search through its 35K videos collection to over 1M unique monthly visitors. "We've had sphinx in production for just over 1 year this month on our search and are EXTREMELY happy with it..." |
| Brownbook.net | Mldb.org | Computerlove | BrownBook, an open business directory, serves up 2.5 million docs. The Music Lyrics Database, which carries over 220,000 song lyrics, implements most of its functionality by using almost every single Sphinx feature available (uses extended queries, live attribute updates, main/delta index partitioning, you name it). Previously used Lucene but moved to Sphinx because... |
| Ytmnd.com | Proza.com.ua | RateMyArea.com | YTMND, a popular meme site (and a word somewhat easier to type than "juxtaposition"), runs Sphinx. Proza, an Ukrainian online art magazine provides Sphinx-based search over thousands of its articles. "We index over 120,000 places (17 MB), and almost 250,000 events (54 MB). We run our entire stack (nginx, passenger, mysql, sphinx, starling, memcached) on s single server. It's a quad core Xeon with 8GB of RAM. Sphinx typically uses less than 60 MB of RAM, and very little CPU time when compared to MySQL or our Rails instances." |
| Tip.it | Callisto.fm | Mentby.com | They use Sphinx to power their Forums. "Callsto.fm needed a search engine that could be centrally located, easy to manage, and (most importantly) be super fast. Sphinx did all that and more. I'm thrilled with the performance. We're only indexing 10,000+ records, but we expect exponential growth, and I have no doubt that Sphinx will handle it perfectly." mentby.com is a social media enabler aimed for unstructured user-generated content, providing a data source that is easily accessible from facebook, twitter, friendfeed, blog/profile widgets, RSS readers, etc. |
| Esato.com | Sharedj.com | Skylinesaustralia.com | "Our forum is based on one of the first releases of phpBB but has been modified beyond recognition over the years. Sphinx was relatively easy to set up and it has been running for over a year now without any trouble. The forum has over 2.900.000 posts." "We based our Search API on Sphinx that we found much more reliable, customizable and quick than the build in functions in MySql." Indexing a bit more than IPB 3,000,000 posts in a bit less than 3 minutes from scratch (in no time, if |
| Rapidok.com | widepress.com | Doktus.de | File Search Engine. Widepress is an international news search engine which indexes more than 10 million news articles in 5 languages (French, English, German, Italian and Spanish). Doktus, a new Web 2.0 startup from Germany, replaced Lucene with Sphinx to search through the millions of full text documents that its users share. |
| JRank | E-Commerce, Shopping | Raveable.com | JRank is a new type of site search engine. It's fast, easy, accurate, and requires no installation on your web host. To date, JRank has indexed over 40 million pages! We built it on popular, open-source tools to leverage the best of existing search technology. Try searching some User Articles with JRank. "We use it to index the worlds largest database of hotel opinions. Sphinx is super fast and works great with Ruby. We are indexing about a 1 million records against MySQL. Searches are in the milliseconds." |
| Tweedehands.net | Sahibinden.com | ErrorHelp.com | "We've made big performance improvements with Sphinx. Tweedehands.net is the second biggest classified ads website in the Netherlands. We have more visitors than ebay.nl. Daily there are more than 100.000 searches!" Sahibinden, Turkey's local eBay, initially adopted Sphinx to improve its fulltext search. "ErrorHelp.com is powered by a slightly modified sphinx-- it's a very essential part of our error search techniques. Thanks for all your great work!" Matthew Casper |
| Findthebest.com | AVITO.ru | Woomark.com | FindTheBest is an objective comparison search engine that allows you to find a topic, compare your options and decide what's best for you. Ultimately, FindTheBest allows you to make faster and more informed decisions by allowing you to easily compare all the available options. Avito.ru utilizes Sphinx to deliever the #1 classfieds ads site in Russia. The deliver close to 3 millions ads for a wide array of market cateogories. Woomark the community where you can share your favorite places into groups of interest. |
| Tellows | Tradebit.com | Hijack Bristol | "The possibility of multi-value-attributes, the libstemmer and the ease of use are outstanding! Thanks for your great work!" Tradebit handles 600K+ pageviews over 2,000,000 files which are sold by 6000 merchants through their platform. "We had a need for very fast free text search within forum posts. We now use Sphinx to power search on our forum and are happy to be added to the powered by section." Ritesh Patel |
| Regator.com | Zbozi.cz | Voota.es | Regator, a blog aggregator and directory with a little over 1M posts (and adding 40K/week) sometimes called fast and responsive by its users, has a secret sauce - several different features (beyond simple search) are Sphinx-based. Zbozi, a product search and price comparison website by Seznam.cz A.S., indexes 20M e-shop items from 6K e-shops in the Czech Republic. There are 1.8M incoming search requests per day, peaking at 150K per hour. Additionally, there are 12M of so-called "short search" requests per day. Spanish political/politician review site. |
| Emlak JET | Envato | Guzzle.it | "We are using Sphinx for our freetext search scripts. www.emlakjet.com is the leading real estate web site of Turkey." "I just thought I'd let you know that over at Envato (http://envato.com) we're very happy with Sphinx. We currently use it for all 7 of our marketplaces: ActiveDen, ThemeForest, AudioJungle, GraphicRiver, VideoHive, CodeCanyon, and 3DOcean. We search around half a million records and serve about 10 million requests a week - Sphinx handles it with no problems." Guzzle is a topic-based single page news aggregator. It's a web application. |
| Quotesdaddy.com | Enbac.com | Infegy | QuotesDaddy.com, a large online collection of famous quotes with over 1,000,000 entries in the database, notifies that switching to Sphinx for searching improved overall site performance many times (literally). Enbac is a popular Vietnamese online auction site. Percona Partner |
| Ezlocal.com | Rongbay.com | Ipatter.com | Online search directory for small and medium sized businesses. Rongbay is the online classified listing platform, the biggest one in Vietnam with about 3 million records, 20,000 advertisement messages each day, and (as of late 2008) average of 100,000 visits a day. "Without sphinx we would struggle to implement a solution with the same robustness, speed of search and full-text ability with SQL alone." |
| Aok.dk | Beslist.nl | Club Scion | The biggest cityguide in Denmark. BesList is a product and price comparison engine that indexes over 7,000,000 products. "Estimated daily searches are around 10,000, which mostly come from our forums (includes user searches and related content searches). Load averages have been significantly reduced since moving from Solr/Lucene." |
| Vinogusto.com | pulscen.ru | Pravorub.ru | Vinogusto helps you to find the right wine for any occasion. Vinogusto is a wine community where you choose and discover wines, review wines, producers, wineries, merchants and restaurants. You manage your own wine reviews and meet other wine enthousiasts Leading trading platform for buying and selling goods and services in Russia. Pravorub.ru is a free and open community of Russian and foreign lawyers/legal advisers who publish articles, document their legal practice, answer community questions, and give legal advice to visitors from Russia and abroad. The decided to use Sphinx 2.0.1-beta because of its superior performance, flexibility and ease of use. |
| Kerneltrap.org | eBid.net | T-warez.com | KernelTrap, a web community devoted to sharing the latest in kernel development news, already rolled out Sphinx to search through 400K-message mailing list archives (and is going to makes everything else searchable too). Moved over from MySQL Fulltext. Indexing over 3.5 million auctions, their titles, descriptions and many other attributes smoothly and happily! T-Warez, forum.alavigne.com.br and floppop.com are differently sized (100k to 600k posts) IPB boards hosted by EvilPuma - now searched using only a fraction of a single commodity machine's power. |
| Mr. Lavoro | Thumbtack.com | Tweetphoto | Job Search Engine. "We run sphinx on top of a Postgresql database containing millions of records. Sphinx sped up full-text searching by about 100x over the built-in version in Postgresql, enabling us to use full-text searching and the powerful query language Sphinx provides to help connect consumers with the content they are seeking!" TweetPhoto has started to use Sphinx recently, primarily as a replacement for SQL Server's full text indexing. They say it works great! |
| Chatten.nl | Limundo | Xltronic.com | Chatten is an online chat site in Dutch with 600K users and millions of pageviews. Auction website for Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, BiH, Slovenia and Montenegro. Xltronic.com is powered by Sphinx to search through over 2 million forum posts. A tagcloud for frequently used search strings is generated from Sphinx logs. |
| StartUpHire.com | Delcampe.net | Profile Technology Ltd. | "We are very happy using Sphinx to power the search results at StartUpHire.com, a niche job site for startups. We've been using it for over a year, and have found it to be very fast and accurate. Thanks for a great product!" Delcampe.net is like an ebay for collectors. They let their users search on 70M items where they have 36M running sales + 34M early closed sales and are serving approximately 750K search/day. Advanced Search is the world's only dedicated independently owned search engine for Facebook, running on our own MySql database rather than Facebook data. We believe we have more information on Facebook users, groups and pages than anyone other than Facebook themselves. |
| Showclix.com | Produkte24.com | GetTheRating.com | A full-service ticketing company that provides event organizers, promoters and venue managers with innovative solutions that allow them to sell tickets online, over the telephone and at their box office. "Thanks to Sphinx, the performance is quite amazing. We are able to run 100k queries a day on a single USD 200 server. Our DB is 16GB heavy and none of our problems are related to Sphinx." Product & Service Review |
| Esciencenews.com | Who-sells-it.com | Fisheye Analytics | Eureka Science News is an automated science news aggregator. Besides 'just' searching, Sphinx is used to create 'dictionary' pages about most topics on the site, and to generate stopword lists for their custom clustering and categorization engine. WhoSellsIt is a search engine for product cataloques and brochures. When a traditional way of doing analytics with a DBMS didnt offer good performance for our large loads, we looked to Sphinx, a full text search engine to do analytics, something which Sphinx is not intended to be used for. We experimented. We married MySQL with Sphinx to offer great performance in analytics crunching hundreds of millions of client data records. http://engineering.fisheyeanalytics.com/2010/12/experiment-that-worked.html |
| ljseek.com | Onewayshopping.com | Digitalexpressions.nu | LJSeek, which specializes on searching through public LiveJournal entries, indexes 220 million posts from 6 million users. Onewayshopping LLC is feature-rich shopping guide that provides online shoppers with helpful information to assist in their purchasing decisions. The search engine offers free and unbiased information on products and merchants, including price comparisons, availability and other merchant information. Digital Expressions with 1,500,000 documents in a 8-gig database. |
| Testfieber.de | Sortprice.com | Fisheye Analytics | A product review site pulling information from various outside benchmarks, individual test, and market overview. Using Sphinx with over 25M records indexed daily, it powers the review section of the site. Here is a blog post describing how they used Sphinx: http://engineering.fisheyeanalytics.com/2010/12/experiment-that-worked.html |
| gulfjobsmarket.com | ARTFLAKES | Talkcomputer.com | Gulf Jobs Market Ltd - Jobs, News and Information for Jobseekers in the Gulf. ARTFLAKES specializes in selling posters, art print, greeting cards from international artists and designers. They run Sphinx 0.9.9 on Gentoo with MySQL as the data-source. They utilize Sphinx because outside of its great performance, it enables them to implement a great filter mechanism without additional code. "Sphinx search is not only visibly much quicker than fulltext mysql but also enables me to search gzipped fields in Mysql database and so I did not make the decision to use Sphinx based on speed alone." |
| Netroby | Store-locator.com | Answer.se | Based on wordpress, netroby is a professional PHP project and project development team that is focused on Web development technologies. Store-Locator.com is a service for locating stores world-wide. Currently over 35,000 stores are listed including 3.5 million items attached to it. Sphinx is used in future anticipation of higher search performance needs. While MySQL easily could handle the current few thousand daily queries, Sphinx's easy and cost effective installation convinced them to use it from the very start. Answer.se, a new and quickly growing social Q'n'A search engine in Swedish, did its own testing on search systems and chose Sphinx becuse of the speed and compatibility. It's used for search and listings for both the Web and mobile versions. |
| Florida Mug Shots.us | GreetingCardUniverse.com | Technology South-West | "After getting sphinx up and working our 'slow SQL Query log' basically went empty. Queries for sorting that previously took 5 seconds went to .02 and searches that previously were not possible are now possible and executed in sub second times." "We use Sphinx to index and search through almost 400,000 cards and 10,000 card categories. Search times are sub-second so it works great." A technology blog. |
| nnseek.com | einfachbilliger.com | Favorious.com | NNSeek add search capabilites to about 60 million Usenet posts. E-commerce German Product Search. Twitter Application Site. |
| Jobinventory.com | Cost Central | Heynielsen.com | Job Search site. Just added Sphinx search to http://www.costcentral.com, which has almost 500k products. Provider of computer software and hardware, including peripherals, supplies, and services. Online shopping is available. Hey! Nielsen, a site for posting opinions about TV, movies, music, etc... is using Sphinx to search content created on the site (400,000 records and growing) as well as a subset of the seeding Wikipedia subset. |
| Hipo.ro | Teenormous.com | Wikipik.org | "We're a small HR consultancy that runs its own Job Portal, located at www.hipo.ro We use Sphinx to index and search our CV database which, although small (~1GB, our indexes are barely above 100MB), provide some interesting search difficulties (a lot of joined fields, pseudo int ranges for smart filtering etc)." "Search times are so low we haven't done extensive profiling but they are definitely in the couple hundred millisecond range. We are impressed that Sphinx is able to perform so well even given very minimal hardware and RAM." Review site that focuses on letting users find quickly what is best for them, WikiPik features customizable grid views showing ranked ratings, specs and user contributed performance data. It's open licensed, multilingual, ad free. And searchable. |
| webofant.ch | Buch Freund | Local Republic | Webofant is a vertical search engine that indexes 13,000,000 documents crawled from Switzerland websites. "We moved our search index on www.buchfreund.de from native MySQL MyISAM fulltext index to the Sphinx fulltext engine, which works very fast and brilliant." "We proudly use the Sphinx search engine! You can find credit for Sphinx in our page http://localrepublic.com/about" |
| ngindex | Fashionchick | Blogoat.com | "We at ngindex are using sphinx to index and search 15 million plus table records and 3 million plus text files and it works great." Fashionchick uses Sphinx 0.9.8.1, together with SphinxSE plugin to power browsing through millions of products, brands and shops. blogoat.com (and its Swedish bloggz.se brother) are blog search engines, with about 11 GB indexed text. |
| DealBert.net | Freetorg.com | SAAS, Hosting | Dealbert.net (beta) is a free, real-time online deal search engin FreeTorg is a B2B/B2C trade portal. Search is performed against 450,000+ trade leads. |
| Wadoo.net | Automoto.gr | Yuku.com | Web Directory and Search Engine. This is just the first breed of new verticals from the biggest classifieds operator in Greece. yuku.com uses sphinxsearch for 3 years now - Offers free and paid discussion board hosting. The free version is ad-supported. |
| uQuery | teilesuche24.de | invisionpower.com | "uquery.com is a new search engine focused on the emerging market of iPhone & iPod Touch applications. We have listened to many requests of the community and the frustration of being able to search and find applications on the iTunes AppStore. With 263,907 applications available on the AppStore, it was becoming tremendously difficult to find the right application. We are using Sphinx with MongoDB to power uQuery.com search results." Marcio Castilho An online shop for car parts, indexing 250,000 parts with more than 5,000,000 MVA values attached to them, heavily using filtering and group-by and getting excellent performance out of that. IPS Hosting is a forum hosting service from the creators of the popular Invision Power Board forum software. |
| Plantarium.ru | My Natural Market.com | Pardot | It's an atlas of illustrated plant species intended for a wide range of users - both for amateurs and professionals - botanists, ecologists, and geobotanists. "I am very impressed with Sphinx. Search results returned in 0.000-0.002 which is MUCH faster than MySQL " LIKE '%keyword' " or even fulltext index. And the best part is that it returns relevant results even on some misspells." "It can slice and dice our users' data based on complex criteria. Sphinx is of course much faster for this than the native MySQL search. We have 250+ businesses using this." |
| Orbit Hangar Mods | Willyfogg.com | SmartFile | "Searches are amazingly fast and the engine is capable of meeting all my requirements. I had originally used MySQL's built-in functions for doing this, but was disappointed with the available options and performance. Sphinx really picked up the slack and is returning more accurate results than any other search engine I've tried." WillyFogg is an international product search engine. Sphinx helps to index 17,000,000+ products. "We use sphinx to provide blazing fast search of nearly a million documents in various formats: PDF, DOC, DOCX, etc." |
| Latravia.com | Soqi | Injoos.com | "We offer crucial information about relocation to foreign "Our company uses your product in our search. Thank you very much. Sphinx is very excellent.and does a very good job." Fu Injoos team-ware organizes both content and collaboration technologies around team-based goals and enables contextual use of these technologies. |
| Maindoor.ru | Gorodnet.com | Loudfeed.com | Global real estate portal. This is an independent media site, the main task of which is to help buyers and investors to navigate a wide range of existing proposals on the market, providing an opportunity to contact the sellers of objects directly, without intermediaries. "Its so great that we do not have to rely on the slow mysql text search and page fullscans." Loud Feed, a start up SAAS company, provides tools for independent artists, labels and promotors to sell, promote and license their music. Migrating from direct MySQL queries to Sphinx helped to noticeably reduce search query times. |
| Telelista.com | Absorbentprinting.com | Cuquo.com | "During the development of my phonebook system, I came across problems performing full-text search with speed in a table with about 19 million records. After finding Sphinx, I had all my problems solved." Absorbent Printing uses Sphinx to search through online catalog containing more than 4,500 promotional products and corporate gifts. A free SAAS CMS for the Hispanic market that jumps several unnecessary steps in publishing and sharing content. |
| Shirlz | Absorbent Ink | O2-Graphics | "I've chose Sphinx because of the big names that uses it, so it must be good. I switched from Google Custom search to Sphinx and its so much better. A lot more customization, greater control on the indexed pages. For our site, much more accurate." Absorbent Printing uses Sphinx to search engine for their e-commerce site, to search through online catalog containing more than 4,500 promotional products and corporate gifts. "We have developed our own CMS which we'll sell to our customers and our website is also based on it. We have integrated Sphinx in our CMS so visitors can search in our website." |
| ExploitSearch.net | QuickerBuy.com | AdTracking-Solutions | Exploitsearch.net crawls the source databases/websites and parses the contained data. Once the data is collected and parsed, it is inserted into the www.exploitsearch.net database and becomes available for searching. To this end they are running Sphinx 2.0.1-Beta on Debian and connecting to MySQL. QuickerBuy.com is free integrated trading platform which takes advantage of many shopping oriented distribution opportunities (eBay, Google, Bing) to help users sell their products. They use Sphinx 0.9.9 to deliver 100 ms query performance because the performance is very fast, and it is stable. "Thank you for your work. Since the 1.10-beta news we are generating our massive daily statistics DB, using all the new features (filter range, RT index, ...), in less than 10 seconds! Your engine rocks!!!" |
| RSS Spider | Alloy Group Ltd. | Download | RSS Spider is a vertical search engine which indexes over 5,000,000 RSS feeds. "We use sphinx for search on our django-powered project Platform.Alloy, whose work can be seen on alloy.ru, narashvat.ru, findrealty.ru and others. The main site is alloy.ru Thank you and good luck!" Vasiliy Bolshakov |
| ReviewGang.com | Easyautosales.com | The Pirate Bay | ReviewGang.com provides aggregated critic reviews for bollywood movies and uses sphinx to power the movie search. Using the engine to search over a million cars has allowed EasyAutoSales.com to shorten what was 15-30 second delays down to milliseconds. The Pirate Bay and (the forthcoming) SuprNova have both moved to Sphinx recently. |
| Export-japan.com | Buzzers (Techunits.com) | Filestube.com | Export-Japan.com, a B2B site for companies interested in doing business with Japan, indexes data from around 6000 Japanese companies with English websites with great success. Buzzers.co.za is an e-commerce site built by Techunits a web-development firm. They are currently running Sphinx 2.01 (beta) with MongoDB & MySQL. filestube.com is a FTP/HTTP search engine aimed at files, with over 3,000,000 links to downloadable content currently in its database. Sphinx-powered search latency (measured in milliseconds now) is the most visible advantage, but other nice features (such as grouping) did not go unnoticed too. May 2008 update: FilesTube's newly launched video search service that scouts 20,000,000 videos is Sphinx powered too! |
| Oony | motionelements.com | btjunkie.org | "We choose sphinx over postgresql full text search because we needed a fast and 1 step way to mix geo and fulltext queries sorted by several key factors. Sphinx just gave us all the tools to do this in one step. We're able to get all the documents' ids we need to show to our users in one query, implementing searches much faster." "We are an online marketplace for Asia-focused digital artists. At MotionElements (ME), you can save time and be creative by buying modular, high quality elements. Also, you can make money by selling your existing elements through ME. We support keyed live footages, 2d / 3d animation, 3d models and other stock motion elements." Torrent Site |
| Cligs.ee | DiamondPriceGuide.com | ExtraTorrent.com | "Cligs.ee is an Estonian events site. It is a Ruby on Rails app that uses the Thinking Sphinx to connect to the Sphinx daemon. Works great!" DiamondPriceGuide.com uses Sphinx to search some 10K diamond and jewelry-related questions, answers, articles and blog posts, as well as our comparative diamond shopping tool. Torrent Site |
| GameSamurai.net | RedeParede.com | Torrentdownloads.net | GameSamurai.net, developed by Pixel Grade Studios, is a new alternative on the free gaming scene. They use Sphinx 2.0.1 to provide acurate and organic game search results both in the instant search and in the search pages. Free Online Classifieds: U.S. - Portuguese over 1,200,000 UU daily |
| Foretagskatalog.com | Biblioman.de | Torrenthound | Using Sphinx on a company directory to enhance searching among 120,000 companies. Online shop with 3,000,000 antiquarian books from different sellers. "We use Sphinx for default category listing as it was faster than mysql's order by clause without any query. Server load with 2.5M records is down about 90%." |
| ecomvia.com | Patrol Store | 1337x.org | ecomVia, global multilanguage business finder for products, suppliers, requests, offers, exhibitions scans about 1 million entries. "We use Sphinx under Patrol Store (www.patrolstore.com) e-commerce site. I've decided to create an extra thesaurus system under Magento CE's search architecture and under the whole we simply put Sphinx, it was a nice and easy task, resulting better search results." "I just wanted to let you know that we have used Sphinx for 2 months now and we are REALLY happy with it! We linked back to you on our about us page. Keep up with the great work!" |
| Openkvk.nl | Forsyths | Btscene | A Dutch company that makes Chamber of Commerce information publicly available using Open Source software. "We're running a sheet music shop and it's working like a dream for us. Its integrated with the Prestashop cart system and running really well - couldn't be happier! So, thanks for all the hard work. 64,000 products and counting but we're planning to roll out Sphinx to do neat things like categorisation using wordforms in the future." "I am the owner of btscene.com which has used Sphinx for almost 3 years now. Sphinx Search was a great step for my site and i really want to give a big thanks to you! Thanks for your effort given to this project. We had to replace MySQL search functions with a fast and low system resources alternative. After we found Sphinx we did some PHP side work and ended up having an excellent search engine for our users." |
| Kremnik.ru | eTilbudsavis | Mininova.org | Memorial site of the Great Patriotic War. Uses SPHINX engine to search more than 400,000 cards. "As a new company it's important to be able to scale fast and Sphinx enables us to do exactly that." Mininova, popular BitTorrent search engine, serves 3-5 million searches daily. Take a look at these statistics. |
| Retrocycle | Eveos.de | General-Search.com | "I love Sphinx!!!" Eveos is the German B2B Marketplace for events and incentives, conferences, equipment and technology, personnel, venues and service providers for events. "My site is a file sharing search engine (www.general-search.com) which uses Sphinx technology happily." |
| Duneier.net | knigi-diski.ru | Sumotorrent.com | Duneier.net is a search engine designed for searching shared files. Their search results are powered by Sphinx full-text search engine. They report absolute satisfaction. Price comparison service for books and DVDs, with about 1 million rows in the database. SumoTorrent is one of the many happy users of Sphinx: with more than 700,000 torrents to search through and an estimated 500,000 daily searches, Sphinx helped to provide accurate results without killing MySQL server. |
| Gartoo | Zzoop | yourBittorrent.com | "Gartoo allows home seekers across from the UK, Germany, Italy, and Spain to find properties quickly and smartly. We search thousands of houses and flats every single day." It has been online for more than five years. While about 42% of the site's visitors are in the US, it is also popular in Germany. It is located in the US. Zzoop.com's visitors view 1.1 unique pages each day on average. Reported as Sphinx-powered since some time in 2007, and, to keep it short, they are happy. |
| Chiefmall.com | Gadyet | Torrentbit.net | Chiefmall is a search engine tool to look up contractors in the USA and to post jobs to them. It currently indexes every contractor in California and in 8 other states, totaling in about 420,000 documents, and using Sphinx to implement geo-searching over those. More technical details are available here. "In our internal tracking system we have about 250,000,000 rows in our MySql db that I put in a Sphinx index, and its ever increasing. My life would simply be much harder if not for Sphinx." "Your search is really powerful. After 2 years of site operation I wanted to express my respect for your outstanding product." |
| Ekobai.com | Pawel Mucha Technologie Informatyczne | Softpile.com | The site is used by leading companies interested in sustainable and ethical *supply chain management*. "When 1.10-beta was released we decided to give it a try as a standalone database. It was about 10 times faster. Now we connect to it by MySQL protocol and use SphinxQL." Pawel Mucha Shareware and freeware archive. |
| Openphrases.com | BuzzVertical | Proisk | OpenPhrases.com, free SEO tool for keyword search and analysis, is indexing its 30-million keywords database with Sphinx. "We evaluated different solutions including MySQL full text search and Lucene and found Sphinx to be the best option for us. After DB has increased 100 times we still don't see any performance problems with full text search." "Now we are searching 1,212,873,037 files, but reaching 2bil in next 1-2 months and serving 80k-100k queries per day, (80% for bots)" Oleg |
| Cloud Mining.net | Preisomat.com | Torrentspy.com | System to automatically build a faceted search interface and search engine from any data. Preisomat, the German price comparison service with over 6,000,000 prices, is powered by Sphinx Search and is performing very well. With a bit of hacking to integrate Sphinx into otherwise MS-based .NET solution, TorrentSpy replaced 5 MS SQL boxes running fulltext search with 1 Sphinx box (dual 3.2 GHz Xeon, for the curious). |
| Wordowl.com | Productplace.net | Sharaget.com | Peter of Wordowl, a comic search engine, reports that Sphinx scales nicely in all directions, running really well on his modest virtualised server. ProductPlace.net is a product price comparison site offering free service to consumers worldwide with over 50,000,000 products in the database from over 1,000 online merchants from USA, Canada, the UK, Australian, Germany, France, Italy, etc... and growing. Sphinx enabled ProductPlace.net users to find products and compare prices instantly. We are very satisfied with the performance of Sphinx. Sharaget.com provides quality file search on both FTP servers and HTTP resources. At present, there are more than 80,000,000 direct download links and over 2,000,000 new links are added to search index. The decided to use Sphinx (2.0.1-beta) because of its great usability and instant search results delivered in less than a second. |
| Allcoins.org | Get It | Clearbits | AllCoins.org, a comprehensive coin collecting sites directory, adds search capabilities using Sphinx. "We choose Sphinx to stay consistent across all of our web properties. It provides us with full text search options and outstanding performance." "ClearBits provides hosting and distribution for open licensed media. We recently did some major server upgrades and Sphinx continued working flawlessly. Great product, thank you for everything you've put out into the community." |
| lf24.pl | aktua.pl | Foofind.com | "LF24.pl is a company search engine. Sphinx helped us to provide blazing fast searches (most searches are completed within 1 milisecond) to our users." "When 1.10-beta was released we decided to give it a try as a standalone database. It was about 10 times faster. Now we connect to it by MySQL protocol and use SphinxQL." Open source search engine that indexes files on the eDonkey, Gnutella, BitTorrent peer-to-peer networks as well as on FTP or Web servers. |
| Agenda.nl | Buyfinders.com | Figator.com | Agenda.nl is an online music, theatre, movie and nightlife agenda for the Netherlands. It's build in Ruby on Rails and uses the Thinking Sphinx plugin. BuyFinders.com switched to Sphinx in order to provide fast searching on more than 25 million products, updated daily. With Sphinx installed, full text searches that took more than 30 seconds now process in less than a second. figator.com, a well known search engine for P2P networks is powered by Sphinx. It indexes over 30 million records and executes about 15 searches per second at peak times. |
| Phrases-in-English.org | dinpris.no | TorrentVIP.com | "My site phrasesinenglish.org/PIE/ uses Sphinx with data from the British National Corpus (100 million words / about 6GB of tables). I will also use it with large corpora (1-2 billion words) derived from the Web. Thanks for an exceptionally well-performing product!" DinPris AS, a leading shopping comparison service in Norway, and one of the very first heavy SphinxSE users. Torrent Site |
| 82ask.com | Cellularmall.ca | Zigg.com.br | " Sphinx indexes its large collection of text messages with ease, where MySQL full text search was beginning to struggle." CellularMall is an online retailer of unlocked GSM cellphones and cellular accessories. They are 'Sphinxing' their online product catalog. "We are using Sphinx at Zigg.com.br (top downloads sites in Brazil), with 8 million unique accesses for each month." |
| 3smil | Fitstream | Education | "Our company 3smil has been using Sphinx for four years. We prefer Sphinx for our clients. The most positive aspect is the fast work flow, which enhances our effectiveness and the effectiveness for our clients. Search queries with Sphinx take less than one second, where the MySQL search needs a lot of more time. Sphinx is using high quality multiple filters. This is a big advantage if our major costumers are using extensive data bases." "The search times couldn't be faster..." |
| code-crawler.com | Banu | Quizlet.com | This specialized engine has a live index of 20 million cheat codes. "We use Sphinx compiled from tarball, including the native PHP client API. It seems that this is much faster than using php-perl-sphinx (a binary PHP extension). ... We've added you to our credits. Thank you for Sphinx!" Using sphinx 2.0.2-dev with PHP Sphinx API connector + MySQL on Solaris. Index is about 200 million rows of data with a 6GB index. Some queries take 500ms but most are under 100ms. |
| Topcompanyjobs.com | Flog.co.uk | BeeDictionary.com | TopCompanyJobs.com is an international job search engine. Currently there are 370,000+ jobs covering 150+ countries all over the world. Despite running on a (very) modest old server, Sphinx performs well. Flog.co.uk& offers.co.uk use Sphinx - allowing users fast searching across all content. BeeDictionary.com is an Online American English Dictionary with intuitive browsing interface. They are using Sphinx for generating suggestions. |
| mubaikar.com | Pickii.com | Philpapers.org | "We have successfully implemented Sphinx for our CMS and it is working great on our own portal. It searches a lot of data for the city of Mumbai." Pickii finds the best reviewed products at Amazon and uses Sphinx to power the site's search across several hundred thousand products. Not a huge dataset, but site users often comment that the search function is lightning fast and returns useful results. philpapers.org has been happily running on Sphinx for about six months (using SphinxSE). That's the leading search engine for philosophical research. |
| Propquest.co.uk | Bombon | Zachetik.ru | UK property search engine, search thousands of properties throughout the UK. Bombon is a Ukrainian children's clothing e-commerce site. They are using Sphinx 0.9.9 with MySQL 5.1.58 to search their online store. Russian educational portal. |
| News & Information | Gidbi | mybigcampus.com | Gidbi, the recycling community recently moved from full text indexes to sphinx in a bid to speed up the searching on the currenty 250K+ items in the database that are free to collect to anybody that wants them! An SAAS solution for school districts. |
| Hubpages.com | Emption Corporation | Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online | "Sphinx has powered HubPages search since 2008 and currently performs 700+ queries a second on indexes totaling more than 36 million items." Larry Freeman Emption is a comparison shopping website, which utilizes Sphinx for search. With Sphinx, Emption currently searches and compares over 10,000,000 products. Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) is an essential resource for the study of Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800). |
| The Arizona Republic | Skatalogowane.pl | projectrhea.org | The Arizona Republic (azcentral.com): Daily newspaper for the Phoenix metro area. Includes State, national, and world news; opinion; weather; sports; entertainment; business, computing, travel, and lifestyle features. "We just installed Sphinx for our shopping related site in Poland. It's amazing, thanks!" Rhea is a website that enables members of the Purdue community to help each other learn. The core feature of Rhea is a "wiki" (like wikipedia) used to create/share/discuss education-related material. Anybody with a Purdue career account can login to Rhea and contribute content. |
| Youblisher.com | pricetaker.com | Medical | Youblisher.com is a free hosted service for turning PDF into flipping, magazine-style documents. For convenience, Sphinx is used to search through 30,000 documents with nearly 3 million pages. Pricetaker team is running more than 15,000,000 items in their database and they love Sphinx. |
| NewWorldEncyclopedia.org | Social Networks, Blog, Forum | Sanego.de | NewWorldEncyclopedia.org, an effort to augment Wikipedia with values and greater editorial oversight, replaces standard MediaWiki search with Sphinx plugin. "Sphinx is used because of its high performance, and ease of implementation and data updates." |
| Hd.se | tumblr.com | Arzt-suche24.at | Helsingborgs Dagblad is the largest local newspaper in Sweden. It has over a half of a million published articles, and that archive is searchable. "Sphinx powers Tumblr's search. Tumblr is a blog network that will soon exceed a billion pageviews per month. We currently run three Sphinx servers in parallel, using continuous reindexing with three delta indexes and one main index per server. (They round-robin the posts to determine which server indexes which posts.)" "We chose Sphinx as the only indexing alternative being open-source, written in a natively compiled language (no virtual machines), very well documented and offering advanced functionality such as geo search." |
| Geograph.org.uk | Netlog | Citehealth.com | Since recently, Geograph British Isles project uses Sphinx for all the kinds of searching - through about a million of images taken so far, lots of articles, a growing forum, the username and gazetteer searches, and even query completion. Whoa. Netlog uses Sphinx to serve content to their Social Network composed of 70 Million Users in 25 different languages. CiteHealth, a site which lists most if not all health centers in the US (hospital, rehab center, dialysis center.. you name it) is succesfully powered by Sphinx - and a natural example of how it can be run under Windows in production, too! |
| Information.dk | Gutefrage.net | Best Care Home | Information, an independent daily newspaper from Denmark, indexes 180,000 articles stored in Drupal CMS using Sphinx. gutefrage.net is a free advice community search that allows users to find and give helpful advice. "BestCareHome aggregates information from the government regulator of UK care homes and offers a powerful search engine driven by Sphinx. We have over 130,000 large text documents and over 2GB of data indexed and are thrilled by the speed of the 'instant' search." Richard Phillips |
| Manualshark.org | Habrahabr | Hpn.to | ManualShark.org is a service for free user guides and instruction manuals. Sphinx has to index and search over 65,000 manuals and guides totaling nearly 5 million pages. It's a bigger IT blog in Russia and post-USSR. hpn.to is a leading Canadian health and living destination for online shoppers that offers a wide range of products from shampoos to vitamins to everything in between. "We chose Sphinx because of it's great design, search capabilities and intuitive API." George Papayiannis |
| Car Dealers in America (Drnew.com) | eXBii | Laramy-K Optical | Car Dealers in America (drnew.com) provides the most comprehensive list of the car dealers in America and uses Sphinx because of its superior performance "Our forum, http://www.exbii.com has been powered by Sphinx for ages now. Why we chose sphinx: We chose sphinx because default vbulletin search is very very slow and brings the db server to it's knees." Siddhesh An optical wholesale lab. |
| news.speeple.com | Wikimapia.org | Chemsink.com | A multi-lingual news search engine, 25 million news articles and growing. Handled effortlessly by Sphinx. WikiMapia, Google-vs-Wiki mashup which aims to describe the whole world, uses Sphinx to search through 4,000,000+ user-submitted place descriptions. ChemSink uses Sphinx along with OpenBabel's fingerprint search to search through the million compounds currently in the database, with 5-10 names/descriptors each. |
| Pressetrends.com | CanalBlog | PresseTrends.com is a brand new press service for searching through the German, Swiss and Austrian newspapers. In anticipation of higher search volume, Sphinx Search was chosen. There are hundreds of newspapers with over 5 million articles. Decided to use Sphinx because of the performances and it is open source. | |
| Foonews.net | Blogcatalog.com | Foonews, an international newsgroup gateway and search engine (currently covering Italian, Spanish and French groups) indexes 14,000,000 posts using Sphinx. BlogCatalog.com blog search (indexing about 1.8 million posts and growing by about 20,000 a day) is now Sphinx powered, see it in action. | |
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