Simple introduction to scoring Search engines like Sphinx/Manticore Search take texts from documents, split it into tokens and allow searching a bag of tokens/words over this collection. In the most simple scenario this collection contains the tokens/words ( in what we call the index dictionary) and list with documents where they were found and document’s Read more about Relevance scoring in Manticore : part I[…]
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Many databases and search engines allow you to customize your queries using your own so called “user defined functions” or UDF. Sphinx and Manticore are not exceptions. There’s a long section in documentation about this – https://docs.manticoresearch.com/latest/html/extending.html#udfs-user-defined-functions
Here I want to give just a quick example of how you can make a UDF which enables some fucntionality which can be really useful in some cases, but missing out of the box – sleep() function.
It is a common question and a misconception that both Sphinx and Manticore have as requirement the MySQL database. This is not true and in this article we will talk about how the search engine can be used independent of MySQL.
In this article we discuss how indexes are loaded at startup and the implications on incoming queries and management of the search instance.
We are pleased to announce the release of Manticore Search 2.7.2 GA.
Prebuilt packages available for Debian,Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS, Windows and OSX can be downloaded from here. For Docker image check official repository.
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