Full-text Search with Manticore Search

Manticore Search delivers powerful and efficient full-text search capabilities, designed to handle complex text queries across large datasets.

What is Full-text Search

Full-text search allows you to search the entire content of documents or databases. It examines every word in stored data to find matches based on the user’s input. Manticore Search comes equipped with advanced full-text search functionality right out of the box.

When you need Full-text Search

Searching through large volumes of text data
Implementing search functionality in content management systems
Building e-commerce product search
Creating document retrieval systems
Developing search engines for digital libraries
Implementing search for customer support knowledge bases
Building search functionality for news or blog websites
Creating search systems for academic research databases
Implementing search in email clients or messaging apps
Developing search functionality for legal document management systems

Why Manticore Search is good for Full-text Search

Manticore Search provides powerful full-text search capabilities right out of the box.
It supports various text processing features like stemming, lemmatization, synonyms, stop words etc.
Manticore offers flexible querying options, including boolean operators, phrase searching, proximity search and many more.
It provides fast and efficient searching even on large datasets.
Manticore supports multiple languages and character sets for international applications.

How to get started

Install Manticore Search

Visit the official Manticore Search website: https://manticoresearch.com/
Follow the installation instructions for your operating system
Alternatively, use Docker: docker pull manticoresearch/manticore

Set up your Manticore Search index

Create a table
Configure full-text fields and attributes
Index your data using the appropriate method (SQL, JSON, CSV, etc.)

Implement full-text search

Use the MATCH() SQL statement or the equivalent JSON method for full-text search.
Send a client-side HTTP JSON or SQL request to Manticore Search or your backend.
Process the response and display the search results to the user.

Optimize your full-text search

Use query expansion techniques like CALL AUTOCOMPLETE or Fuzzy Search (option fuzzy=1) to improve search relevance
Implement faceted search using Manticore’s aggregation capabilities
Use highlighting to show matched terms in search results

Enjoy Full-text Search

Experience fast and accurate full-text search with Manticore Search engine
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Pros

✓ High-performance full-text search capabilities

✓ Support for complex queries with boolean operators and proximity search

✓ Built-in text processing features like stemming and stop words

✓ Scalable for large datasets

✓ Support for multiple languages and character sets

✓ Flexible querying options with SQL and JSON interfaces

Cons

✗ Advanced features may require in-depth knowledge of Manticore Search

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Learn more about other use cases

Do not stop here when learning when you need Full-text Search and how Manticore Search can help you. There are many other use cases that you can explore.

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