Relevance scoring in Manticore : part I

This article is first on a series in which we talk about how relevance scoring works in Manticore Search. We start with the base of revelance : term frequency and specificity.
Simple introduction to scoring Search engines like …

Sphinx UDF example

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 the documentation about this - …

Can Manticore work without MySQL?

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.
While most of …

Indexes load at startup

In this article we discuss how indexes are loaded at startup and the implications on incoming queries and management of the search instance.
In older Sphinx versions, if preopen option was set, indexes would been pre-read and loaded into …

Manticore Search 2.7.2 GA release

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.
Improvements …

FATAL: port 0 is out of range

Hey. Just wanna give you a hint on what to do with error “FATAL: port 0 is out of range” in case you use unix sockets for communicating with your Sphinx / Manticore instance.
Here’s an example:
snikolaev@dev:~/dir$ ./searchd -c sphinx.conf …

Install Manticore Search

Install Manticore Search