[LRUG] Solr or Sphinx

[Luis Correa d'Almeida]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can see that Thinking Sphinx is very easy to use but powerfull. It seems
> that sunspot and sunspot_rails are more used than acts_as_solr.
>
> I still not sur what to use :-)
>

It might be worth spiking the two solutions. Spend a couple of days
implementing a small use case on each option. It is usually well worth
the investment.

> Where I work there is a department that is already using Sorl, so I wuold
> not need to install another search server. Thanks for all the good advices.
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Ed Davey <ed at veryreal.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I vote for sunspot and sunspot_rails (solr).
>>
>> sunspot v1.0 was just released last night. It features:
>>
>> - a totally on the case maintainer (Mat Brown), check the activity on
>> http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-sunspot
>> - great dsl
>> - multi-select facets
>> - spatial searching
>> - no crazy sphinx.conf files which won't do what you want
>>
>> Read all about it at:
>>
>> http://outoftime.github.com/2010/03/03/sunspot-1-0.html
>>
>> ED
>>
>> On 5 Mar 2010, at 10:21, Riccardo Tacconi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am not sure which one to choose, Solr or Sphinx. I read somewhere that
>>> Solr is less used than it used to be. What do you use and with which
>>> plug-in? Is it possible, with both of them, to have text search, ordered by
>>> relevance, with some decent query customize to tune searches?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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Best,