Comments on: faster and better text search

By: sasjamal

sasjamal — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:58:29 +0000

Well, what are you waiting for.

Go back in there and do MYSQL the right way. Then make your fancy graphs

Sas

By: Basil Mohamed Gohar

Basil Mohamed Gohar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:23:20 +0000

I think Sphinx has been proven to be the vastly superior method for fulltext searching. Check out MySQL Performance Blog (http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/) for the gory details. They frequently demonstrate how superior it is.

By: ahmedre

ahmedre — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:03:19 +0000

nice, jazakAllah khair!
i’ll give this a shot and see how it compares. however, i doubt that it will come close to matching sphinx (plus even if it did, sphinx is more powerful, you can build more advanced queries easier, etc – for example, you can say that you have word1 and word2 within a distance of 10 or less words apart, things like this).

if i try this i will post updated numbers here…

By: Basil Mohamed Gohar

Basil Mohamed Gohar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:55:57 +0000

Hmm…approximately 6000 quotes…or “verses” as you say. Whatever could that be?!

By the way, the style of query you were using would not use the MySQL fulltext indexing at all. As far as I know, MySQL has no technique for accelerating a query of the type %something%. If, on the other hand, you are searching.

For example, this would work very fast with MySQL fulltext:

SELECT * FROM `verses` WHERE MATCH (`text`) AGAINST (‘Allah’)

This is how to take advantage of fulltext indexing in MySQL.

More here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html