Audience

Enterprises seeking a full text search server that provides relevant fulltext search functions to other applications

About Sphinx

Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed from the ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and integration simplicity in mind. It's written in C++ and works on Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc), Windows, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and a few other systems. Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily, or index and search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as with a database server. A variety of text processing features enable fine-tuning Sphinx for your particular application requirements, and a number of relevance functions ensures you can tweak search quality as well. Searching via SphinxAPI is as simple as 3 lines of code, and querying via SphinxQL is even simpler, with search queries expressed in good old SQL. Sphinx indexes up to 10-15 MB of text per second per single CPU core, that is 60+ MB/sec per server (on a dedicated indexing machine).

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Integrations

API:
Yes, Sphinx offers API access
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Company Information

Sphinx
Founded: 2007
United States
sphinxsearch.com

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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Training
Documentation
Support
Online

Sphinx Frequently Asked Questions

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Sphinx Product Features

Enterprise Search

Text Analytics
Full Text Search
Indexing
eDiscovery
AI / Machine Learning
Fuzzy Search
Faceted Search / Filtering