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Real time indexes and other already known benefits of sphinx search engine means – it will be loved by many developers and will be used in many projects from now on for sure. RT indexes feature is critical update, which was expected by many professionals who choose SOLR (lucene) instead of sphinx before.

Lets try to install it and use: (on this moment its beta, so I’m doing installation manually)

1. Download
downloading sphinx-1.10-beta.tar.gz and putting it to /usr/ports/distfiles
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Recently, I’ve read a lot of documents where people are trying to compare SOLR with Sphinx search engine.
And main problem with sphinx is – it cannot just made partial update on documents during indexing (or understand during search where fresh is).

For example if somebody updates some old record – you can create delta index, but select from `main` index and `delta` will return you two records, instead of one (plus normal count of search results).

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