[Answered ]-Django haystack or sphinx for simple search?

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I’m the current maintainer of Django-SphinxQL, an implementation for Sphinx in Django, and maintainer of the Xapian backend for Haystack.

I recommend using Haystack:

  • Haystack allows you to choose between different backends, support most standard features of search (e.g. highlight), and already stood the test of time on search engines for Django.

  • Django-SphinxQL is in pre-alpha (other implementations such has Django-Sphinx have stalled), and only support a minimal set of functionality.

The only reason I see to choose Sphinx search in detriment of Haystack (e.g. using Django-SphinxQL) is if you specifically have a use case where Sphinx is clearly superior to any Haystack backend.

For instance, Sphinx is known to be very fast indexing in the plain index, but it requires you to re-index everything when you update the database. This particular setup is very convenient for me because I’m using it to index a database that only changes once a day.

👤Jorge Leitao

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