Default charset tables and stopwords files
In this article we talk about the new additions in the character set tables and stopwords which aim to simplify the usage of these options when configuring indexes.
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Manticore 2.7.5 vs Sphinx 3.1.1
Hi
Here we benchmarked Sphinx 3.0.2 vs Manticore 2.6.2. This was 8 months ago and both Manticore and Sphinx changed since then. As it’s said in Sphinx 3.0.3 announcement Sphinx 3.0.3 is up to 2x faster compared to 3.0.2, so it’s interesting to do another benchmark. This time let’s test on a real dataset – Hacker News comments.
The benchmark was conducted with the following conditions:
About startup, mmap, mlock and –force-preread
As it was mentioned in article ‘Indexes load at startup‘ now all the indexes (attributes and word lists files) are not physically loaded into RAM, but memory-mapped instead. It allows to bring them up much faster on startup, but also has some side consequences I want to explain.
Relevance scoring in Manticore : part II
In the second part about relevance scoring we talk about how positions can be used for matching and scoring.
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Threads in Manticore Search
In this article we talk about the current workers implemented in Manticore Search and how to tune the parameters of the workers.