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diff --git a/textproc/sphinxsearch-devel/pkg-descr b/textproc/sphinxsearch-devel/pkg-descr index 59b3fdaa98a7..b65bb2281d11 100644 --- a/textproc/sphinxsearch-devel/pkg-descr +++ b/textproc/sphinxsearch-devel/pkg-descr @@ -1,14 +1,27 @@ -Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version -2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. +Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed from the +ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and +integration simplicity in mind. It's written in C++ and works on Linux +(RedHat, Ubuntu, etc), Windows, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and a few +other systems. -Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, -size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other -applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL -databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources -support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or from -an XML pipe. +Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL +database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly easily and or index and +search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as with a +database server. -As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as -SQL Phrase Index. +A variety of text processing features enable fine-tuning Sphinx for +your particular application requirements, and a number of relevance +functions ensures you can tweak search quality as well. -WWW: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ +Searching via SphinxAPI is as simple as 3 lines of code, and querying +via SphinxQL is even simpler, with search queries expressed in good +old SQL. + +Sphinx clusters scale up to billions of documents and tens of millions +search queries per day, powering top websites such as Craigslist, +DailyMotion, NetLog, etc. + +And last but not least, it's open-sourced under GPLv2, and the +community edition is free to use. + +WWW: http://sphinxsearch.com/ |