Hi James, I can not speak for Sphinx, since I never used it. However, from reading your requirements there is nothing that fears Solr.
Although Sphinx is written in C++, running Solr on top of a HotSpot JVM gives you high performance. Furthermore the HotSpot JVM is optimizing your code at runtime which sometimes allows long-running applications to run as fast as software written in C++ (and sometimes even faster). Given that Solr is pretty fast and scalable (90k docs are a really small index), you should have a closer look at the features each search-server provides to you and how they suit your needs. You should always keep in mind that users will gladly wait a few milliseconds longer for their highly-relevant search-results, but do not care about a blazing fast 5ms response-time for a collection of trash-results. So try to find out what your concrete needs in terms of relevancy are and which search-server provides you the tools to go. I am pretty sure that both projects provide you php-client-libraries etc. for indexing and searching (Solr does). Kind regards, Em Am 20.02.2012 16:20, schrieb Spadez: > I am creating what is effectively a search engine. Content is collected via > spiders at > then is inserted into my database and becomes searchable and filterable. > > I invision there being around 90K records to be searched at any one time. > The content is > blog posts and forum posts so we are basically looking at full text with > some additional > filters based on location, category and date posted. > > What is really important to me is speed and relevancy. The index size or > index time > really isn’t too big of an issue. From the benchmarks I have seen it looks > like Sphinx > is much faster at querying data and showing results, but that Solr has > improved relevancy. > > My website is coded entirely in PHP and I am planning on using a MYSQL > database. Can > anyone please give me a bit of input and help me decide which product might > be better > suited to me. > > Regards, > > James > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Is-Sphinx-better-suited-to-me-or-should-I-look-at-Solr-tp3760988p3760988.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
