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MariaDb Essentials

You're reading from   MariaDb Essentials Quickly get up to speed with MariaDB—the leading, drop-in replacement for MySQL, through this practical tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783982868
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Installing MariaDB 2. Databases and Tables FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with SQL 4. Importing and Exporting Data 5. Views and Virtual Columns 6. Dynamic Columns 7. Full-Text Searches 8. Using the CONNECT Storage Engine Index

Connecting MariaDB to Sphinx


Mroonga is a new full-text search engine, and the main goal is to support the CJK languages. Until now, the most-used search engine is probably Sphinx, which has a lot of features, allows you to perform very complex queries, and performs better than the other full-text search engines.

Sphinx is a full-text search engine designed to provide better performance and relevance than the standard full-text search features shipped by default with a variety of DBMSs. Sphinx can be integrated directly with the SQL databases, or be queried directly from a script.

There are three different ways to use Sphinx. The first way is to use SphinxQL, a small SQL subset. The second is the native search API, SphinxAPI. And the last, which we will use in this chapter, is a MySQL pluggable storage engine, SphinxSE.

The key features of Sphinx are:

  • High indexing and searching performance

  • Advanced indexing and querying tools

  • Advanced result set post-processing

  • Proven scalability up to billions...

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