Sphinx 1.10-beta is out

We're happy to release Sphinx 1.10-beta, with a new major version number that means, as promised, real-time indexes support.

In addition to RT indexes, it also brings preforked and threaded modes, string attributes, full SphinxQL support (with access to all searchd functions), advanced features such as hitless and blended indexing, optimized index format, and a lot more. A complete list of new 1.10-beta features is available in documentation.

How stable are RT indexes and can one use those in production? Pretty much, especially when backed with a Full or Premium support package to guarantee priority fixes and emergency support respectively. RT indexes are already deployed in production by several early adopters, and are reported to work well. Even though we've been focusing on functionality and stability rather than performance for this release, the latter is also reasonable.

And that's exactly what that "beta" tag is supposed to mean: while there are things missing from RT indexes, and might be bugs found in both RT and other new features, no major issues are however known. Plus the pre-existing features should be as stable as ever.

And yes, with SphinxQL, RT indexes, transactions, crash recovery and other goodies Sphinx now feels almost real close to a database. Except that our full-text searches are still fast!

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#1. endeveit | 2010-07-19 20:06:13, anonymous

It's the best news for the last time!
Thank you for your work :)

#2. John Shlouf | 2010-07-20 00:30:14, anonymous

Very well done, keep up your terrific work !

#3. blvming | 2010-07-20 03:03:16, anonymous

good news ��thanks for your team

#4. Young | 2010-07-20 04:36:57, anonymous

So good! RT index is a great work!

#5. eryx | 2010-07-20 07:25:28, anonymous

Thank you for your work

#6. Barry Hunter | 2011-05-03 13:36:57

Cool thank you.

Can't wait to try out the new features!

I actually most excited by the 'small' things, expand_keywords and blended chars :)

#7. Casey | 2010-07-20 17:09:55, anonymous

Awesome! The subquery cache is doing a fantastic job with my faceted search. Thank you so much!

#8. Casey | 2010-07-20 17:10:53, anonymous

...and sql_joined_field is great too! It's like Christmas over here.

#9. Jason Yu | 2010-07-20 17:14:53, anonymous

real-time indexes support,

Good..

#10. Ryan Bayona | 2011-05-03 13:38:11

Real-time indexes... very promising!

Keep up the good work!

Salute!

#11. Sujith | 2010-07-21 07:13:56, anonymous

Thank you very much

#12. joacub | 2010-07-21 09:22:44, anonymous

in spanish:

muy bueno el cambio, los rt era algo super necesario.

pero tengo una pregunta, es posible hacer de alguna manera site:www.paginaweb.com
y que lo devuelva bien como si hicieramos en mysql url like "http://www.pagina.com%"

saludos y gracias :d.

in iniglish:

very good contrast, rt was something really necessary.

but I have a question, it is possible to somehow site: www.paginaweb.com
and return it as if you did well in mysql url like "http://www.pagina.com%"

greetings and thanks: d.

#13. Mr. Midnight | 2011-05-03 13:38:05

Is it just me, or 1.10-beta is much slower than 0.9.9? For the same database, with the very same configuration, 0.9.9 gives results in 0.2-0.3 sec, while 1.10-beta gives results in more than a sec, about 1.1 sec?

#14. Charlie Root | 2011-05-03 13:38:58

Midnight, we haven't seen that much of a performance regression. There were no changes that would be expected to slow things down that much either. Out of the blue, might be some edge use case.

#15. Kibbee | 2010-07-27 21:07:00, anonymous

Am I reading right? Does Sphinx now support threads on Windows, allowing it to process multiple queries at the same time?

#16. Charlie Root | 2011-05-03 13:38:58

Kibbee, yes it does.

#17. Poinfix | 2010-07-28 16:16:34, anonymous

Great Job... Need to be able to group / filter and sort on string attributes.
Is it planned for the stable release or am i dreaming ?

It would be great, cause we could get rid of specific development we made to be able to do it.

Keep it up !!!

#18. hguhf | 2010-08-01 07:58:26, anonymous

This is really great news, keep it up

#19. Vlad Fratila | 2011-05-03 13:38:14

@Poinfix for sort on strings, use attr_str2ordinal

#20. David | 2010-08-06 10:59:40, anonymous

How do I upload this search engine to my site?

#21. yamini shukla | 2010-08-07 09:34:48, anonymous

how to install a sphinx. plez tell me all steps in deep way

#22. Andrew Aksyonoff | 2011-05-03 13:36:41

David, Yamini, comments are not really the proper place to ask for help. Forum is.

#23. sujith | 2011-05-03 13:37:46

Currently i am working in Sphinx + Cassandra . Its tooooooooooo fast... Reduced the mysql server load alot. Thank you very much Andrew Aksyonoff

#24. Pandora | 2010-08-20 02:37:15, anonymous

когда будет заявлена полная поддержка замены полнотектового поиска в MySQL на SphinxSearch ?

#25. Andrew Aksyonoff | 2011-05-03 13:36:41

Pandora, а чем текущая поддержка "не полна"? разве MySQL FT умеет что-то, чего не умеет Sphinx?

#26. sly | 2010-08-24 05:32:15, anonymous

Wonderful!
I've been looking forword to this version for so long.
Greate job!

#27. shusnail | 2010-09-13 04:54:52, anonymous

thank you for work

#28. swati agarwal | 2011-05-03 13:38:24

adding real time indexing in sphinx has made the sphinx the best search engine.

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