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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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Sphinx is a full-text search engine. Generally, it is a standalone search engine application, built for provide fast, effective and relevant full-text searching to other 3rd parties applications. Sphinx was designed well for integration with SQL databases and scripting languages like php, ruby, etc … Read more here sphinxsearch.com

Installation Sphinx

Of course you can find a lot of instructions howto install sphinx on Freebsd on the web, but I’ve decided just create my version which is clear of course and 100% workable :) (Actually, the truth is – I just dont want to forget how to install sphinx in future as well :) )

Anyway, lets start …

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