Comments on: Comparison Between Solr And Sphinx Search Servers (Solr Vs Sphinx – Fight!)

By: MagentoEye

MagentoEye — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:43:29 +0000

Sphinx is an extremely easy system to get up and running.

By: a

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:23:36 +0000

stackoverflow user, mausch, on which this blog post is based stated that he hasn't used sphinx.

By: drdick

drdick — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:16:33 +0000

The author of this article is ill-informed in my opinion. He even admits as much stating '…I have not had much experience with Sphinx.'
Therefore one who reads this article must ask themselves, why make declaratory statements regarding comparisons between Sphinx and Solar, when you know very little about Sphinx… If you are interested in making an informed decision feel free to reference the Sphinx Feature List:
http://www.sphinxsearch.com/about/sphinx/ and then compare that to Lucene/Solar.

By: Bo Blangstrup

Bo Blangstrup — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:10:46 +0000

Might want to add:

If you want to deploy the search server on a windows platform then solr is the way to go since sphinx does not support multithreading on windows.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:27:57 +0000

I have to disagree with you on that one. It does have the ability to index in the background on its own. There is no scheduler to do it. I personally use Solr with PHP. I have cron jobs that the make the calls to Solr to initiate a full-import or delta-import. You can also directly add/delete/edit solr records, in my case when I update a product the old record is deleted and a new one is instantly added.

By: noone

noone — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:06:48 +0000

I will correct myself by saying that i just noticed the DataImportHandler (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler)

By: noone

noone — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:56:04 +0000

Unfortunately SOLR does not have a background indexer like Sphinx does which can automatically index in the background a mysql database and you must write more code to do so.

By: Marco Lazzeri

Marco Lazzeri — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:20:44 +0000

Field collapsing is not complete in Solr (click on the link you linked). That's why I'm switching to Xapian.

Thanks for the article! Cheers

By: Mauricio Scheffer

Mauricio Scheffer — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:30:33 +0000

Baron, Sphinx's license is *very* clear about its GPL situation and the meaning of "embed", "extend" and "use". See http://www.sphinxsearch.com/licensing.html

By: Baron

Baron — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:26:33 +0000

Artem,

"if you ever need to embed or extend (not just "use") Sphinx in a commercial application, you'll have to buy a commercial license."

I think you need to be more careful about the wording here. In fact, I think it is best to stop at "it is GPLv2," because it is very difficult to say anything accurate about the GPL's restrictions in a few words like that. You need to define a commercial application, for example, and you need to define embed, extend, and use.