I’m looking for a stand-alone full-text search server with the following properties:
- Must operate as a stand-alone server that can serve search requests from multiple clients
- Must be able to do “bulk indexing” by indexing the result of an SQL query: say “SELECT id, text_to_index FROM documents;”
- Must be free software and must run on Linux with MySQL as the database
- Must be fast (rules out MySQL’s internal full-text search)
The alternatives I’ve found that have these properties are:
- Solr (based on Lucene)
- ElasticSearch (also based on Lucene)
- Sphinx
My questions:
- How do they compare?
- Have I missed any alternatives?
- I know that each use case is different, but are there certain cases where I would definitely not want to use a certain package?
