[TYPO3-english] Search extensions

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Stephan Schuler wrote:
> You could ask Dmitry about his Sphinx engine integration.
>
> I tried Sphinx myself a view weeks ago, but the lag of nice and easy write support out of PHP applications made me turn to a full blown Solr based on Jetty. But the reason for this mainly was that I wanted to use the index itself as the one and only persistence layer, so having only rudimentary and not reliable write support here was a complete no-go for me. If you only want to improve search speed, the automated "MySQL backend to Sphinx" mechanism (Sphinx can read its source data out of a given MySQL table of view or select query) might be perfectly fine for you.
>
> So, maybe Dmitry reads here and is in mood to tell us a little about his Sphinx setup.

I have Sphinx implementation at one project but I am not allowed to share. 
Page search there was very simple. We were more interested in record 
search. Sphinx does very well and it is very lightweight. It has a couple 
of bugs (for example, dies at partial reindexing with data sets of about 5 
million records).

If I were to start a new project, I would use Solr. It is more powerful and 
more stable.

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Dmitry Dulepov
TYPO3 CMS core & security teams member