Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide

By: Abbas Ali

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Paperback | 21 March 2011

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244 Pages

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Sphinx is an open-source full-text search server, designed from the ground up with a focus on performance, relevance, and integration simplicity. With Sphinx, you can either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily or index and search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as a database server.

Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide serves as a guide to everything you need to know about running a Sphinx Search Engine. In today's world, search is an integral part of any application and having a reliable search engine like Sphinx Search can be the difference between running a successful and unsuccessful business. What good is being on the Web if no one knows you are there? It is easy to build a proficient search engine with Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide to hand.

This practical guide provides insight into one of the most popular open source search engines, Sphinx. You will learn how to set up Sphinx on your own server, with the basics of how a search engine works explained in brief. You will learn how to create an index using Sphinx and then perform a search on that index using the client API, as well as learning how to configure Sphinx to get the most out of it. You will also be shown how Sphinx gives quality search results by relevance ranking. The book will help a beginner in all possible ways to create both simple and complex search forms in their applications. It's easy to use Sphinx Search engine, when you have the Sphinx Search Beginner's Guide to hand.

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