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SearchWhat is Sphinx?
It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.
Sphinx is a tool in the Search category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Output formats: HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain textExtensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of informationHierarchical structure: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and childrenAutomatic indices: general index as well as a language-specific module indicesCode handling: automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighterExtensions: automatic testing of code snippets, inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more
Sphinx Pros & Cons
Pros of Sphinx
- ✓Fast
- ✓Simple deployment
- ✓Open source
- ✓Lots of extentions
Cons of Sphinx
No cons listed yet.
Sphinx Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Sphinx?
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).
Algolia
Our mission is to make you a search expert. Push data to our API to make it searchable in real time. Build your dream front end with one of our web or mobile UI libraries. Tune relevance and get analytics right from your dashboard.
Solr
Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.
