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 …
Migrating from Sphinx
In this article we talk about how to upgrade from Sphinx.
Manticore Search is a fork from Sphinx Search 2.3. While many portions of the code have been refactored and improved, there is no breaking change that require a major effort to …