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| Developer(s) | Manticore Software |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2017 |
| Stable release | 2.6.0
/ 29 December 2017 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS |
| Type | Search and index |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | manticoresearch |
Manticore Search is a search engine forked from Sphinx search 2.3.2. Manticore Search is developed in C++ and released as open source under the GPLv2 license. Major features include full-text search, real-time indexing, faceted search, hit highlighting, distributed search, built-in load balancer, database connectors. It provides a SQL interface using MySQL protocol, a custom API protocol and a HTTP API. It can run on most platforms that offer a C++ compiler.
Feature list
[edit]- Full-text searching syntax.
- Relevance ranking utilizing additional factors besides standard BM25.
- Text processing support for UTF-8 encodings, stopwords, indexing of words known not to appear in the database ("hitless"), stemming, word forms, tokenizing exceptions, and "blended characters" (dual-indexing as both a real character and a word separator).
- Batch and incremental (soft real-time) full-text indexing.
- Support for non-text attributes (scalars, strings, sets, JSON).
- Database-like result set processing.
- Direct indexing of SQL databases. Native support for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, plus ODBC connectivity.
- XML document indexing support.
- Distributed searching support out-of-the-box and built-in load balancer
- Supports UDF and tokenization plugins
- Geo-spatial search, including polygons
- Faceted search
- Hit highlighting
- keyword suggestion
- Integration via access APIs.
- SQL-like syntax support via MySQL protocol
- JSON over HTTP protocol (experimental, added in 2.5.1)
- Percolate Queries (experimental, added in 2.6.0)
History
[edit]In 2017, several users, unhappy with Sphinx development, decided to create a fork and founded Manticore Software LTD, which drives the development of Manticore Search and provide support services for it. Most of the ex-members of Sphinx development team joined the new project.
| Version | Original release date | Latest version | Release date | Maintenance Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 2017-09-17[1] | 2.4.1 | 2017-09-17 | Still supported |
| 2.5 | 2017-11-23[2] | 2.5.1 | 2017-11-23 | Still supported |
| 2.6 | 2017-12-29[3] | 2.6.0 | 2017-12-29 | Latest |
Legend: Old version, not maintained Old version, still maintained Latest version Latest preview version | ||||
Users
[edit]- Craigslist
- Boardreader
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Manticore Search 2.4.1 GA release". Retrieved 17 October 2017.
- ^ "Manticore Search 2.5.1 Release". Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ^ "Manticore Search 2.6.0 release". Retrieved 29 December 2017.