Re: Search engine that works with MS SQL Server

Frederick Cheung
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:55:22 -0000

On 25 Feb 2009, at 15:22, Maurício Linhares wrote:

>
> Why don''t you use a full text search engine that doesn''t
require a
> database -> http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
>
> Can''t understand why people still try to use Sphinx, when it
doesn''t
> get any near Solr''s features and doesn''t update the
indexes on the
> fly.

Last time I looked (admittedly a while back) sphinx was noticeably
faster at indexing (eg see
http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2008/03/17/rails-search-benchmarks
  and
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/files/presentations/EuroOSCON2006-High-Performance-FullText-Search.pdf
  ).

As far as the original question goes Sphinx doesn''t have to be able to
talk to your database if you can provide a command line tool that will
produce an appropriately formatted xml stream for sphinx.

Fred
>
>
> -
> Maurício Linhares
> http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://
> blog.codevader.com/ (en)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Carsten Gehling
> <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a search engine for Rails that works with MS SQL
>> Server?
>>
>> I have good experience in using Sphinx and the Rails plugin
>> UltraSphinx.
>> Unfortunately, it supports only MySQL and PostgreSQL. The newest beta
>> version does add support for MSSQLServer, but only if Sphinx is
>> installed on a Windows machine - and I have to run it on Debian
>> Linux.
>>
>> So if anyone knows of a similar search engine, that supports the
>> above,
>> I would be very grateful. Especially if it already has a plugin for
>> Rails. :-)
>>
>> - Carsten
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>>>
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