Manticore Search 2.7.3 GA release
We are pleased to announce the release of Manticore Search 2.7.3 GA.
Prebuilt packages available for Debian,Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS, Windows and OSX can be downloaded from here.
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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.
Sphinx UDF example
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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.
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.
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.