Sphinx Search

[alexi]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

I dunno what the average size vB forum is... But you would think if you are selling a forum product, you *want* your clients to be successful. If that means they are going to hit a brick wall after a few million posts in their DB, then you are severely limiting your market. There are quite a few sites that are running very old versions of VB, opting to just patch and write custom code on their own then wait for jelsoft to come up with the official features.

FYI, Searchlight base cost is $2,000 USD...

I haven't had a chance to install 4.0 yet, but I'll check through the code to see what they did to eliminate the table locking. It's still moot though because if search results don't return within a second then people start getting click-happy or give up (both unacceptable).

Imagine if Google took 5 minutes to return every search you make? How many people would be googling?

It is a lot of money but in terms of happy customers it's one of the best investments we ever made. I also looked at it in terms of how much time we would have to spend producing a home grown sphinx solution and then the fact that it would have a lot of the glitches described in this thread. When I added it all up searchlight made sense. I do understand that a lot of boards, even big boards with high traffic run on donations and it's just not affordable.