Finally long awaited Sphinx 3.0 is here. Its a major major rewrite of Sphinx and comes with tons of new features. Here is quick summary of new features I...

Delta indexing is way of designing indexes so only the updated data is read from db and indexed by Sphinx. Imagine a blog with 100 million posts. As posts...

Sphinx Search allows use of custom expressions, where we can have internal attributes, conditions, arithmetic operators, and functions to calculate custom values for each document/record. It then allows sorting these...

Recently we came across a project where we had to make a domains database searchable with high accuracy. Domain names are special because they don’t have any word separators...

I don’t know how often someone have to come across situation where one need to index data from database and files both in one index. One of our clients...