@wok: Hm, I actually don't remember what made me go with Xapian instead of Sphinx anymore. I did some searching now and it seems pretty straightforward to go with Sphinx too.
I think partly it was because I didn't understand if django-sphinx updates indexes when changing data or if it just enabled search in already existing indexes. I started out with Djapian and got it working and was satisfied with that.
Partly it was also that I noticed that I could select which database to use through settings.py with Djapian so it made it easy to use different DBs for testing, development, and production.
I'd love to get some feedback if you decide to go with Sphinx (and django-sphinx)! Perhaps it's a better solution that I should try.
I will give Sphinx a try, I like the attribute filtering and geographical search. Though Sphinx seems to be a bit harder to configure than Xapian and less well integrated into Django.
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That is, Sphinx or Xapian for search? Or, actually, django-sphinx or Djapian?
1 year, 1 month ago by lemonad
Ended up with Xapian and Djapian. Easy to install but documentation not so good. Still got it working fairly quick.
1 year, 1 month ago by lemonad
What was your main reason to go with Xapian? We have good experiences with Sphinx, though didn't use it in combination with Django yet.
1 year, 1 month ago by wok
@wok: Hm, I actually don't remember what made me go with Xapian instead of Sphinx anymore. I did some searching now and it seems pretty straightforward to go with Sphinx too.
I think partly it was because I didn't understand if django-sphinx updates indexes when changing data or if it just enabled search in already existing indexes. I started out with Djapian and got it working and was satisfied with that.
Partly it was also that I noticed that I could select which database to use through settings.py with Djapian so it made it easy to use different DBs for testing, development, and production.
I'd love to get some feedback if you decide to go with Sphinx (and django-sphinx)! Perhaps it's a better solution that I should try.
1 year, 1 month ago by lemonad
I will give Sphinx a try, I like the attribute filtering and geographical search. Though Sphinx seems to be a bit harder to configure than Xapian and less well integrated into Django.
1 year, 1 month ago by wok