[Brug-talk] Ferret - sphinx - Solr

[Peter De Berdt (10-forward)]

On 21 Jan 2008, at 10:47, Peter De Berdt (10-forward) wrote:

> Over the last couple of days, I've been looking into other possible  
> solutions, such as acts_as_solr, acts_as_searchable (using  
> Hyperestraier), and the MySQL MyISAM extra table thingie of which  
> the name escapes me for the moment. I'm currently leaning towards  
> solr, but Sphinx looks mighty tempting. I might run a few tests  
> with it to see how well it copes

Sadly, sphinx is out of the question, it doesn't support wildcard  
searches as our customers are used to apparently, searches for "pet*"  
don't return "Peter" records for example. I may have missed  
something, but this is a feature we can't live without.

Best regards.


Peter De Berdt

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