What is the word on search times?

Ghan_04

Active member
So I'm testing Xenforo on my imported vBulletin 4 forum. Did the cache rebuilds and the reindexing, etc. So here we go with MySQL fulltext searching being completely retarded:

# Time: 111201 18:33:37
# User@Host: <some cool user> @ localhost []
# Query_time: 21.635383 Lock_time: 0.000018 Rows_sent: 200 Rows_examined: 10928
use test_xenforo;
SET timestamp=1322786017;
SELECT search_index.content_type, search_index.content_id
FROM xf_search_index AS search_index

WHERE MATCH(search_index.title, search_index.metadata) AGAINST ('+hero*' IN BOOLEAN MODE)


ORDER BY search_index.item_date desc
LIMIT 200;

When can we expect a faster search solution like Sphinx for Xenforo? Same search on the vBulletin install with Digital Point's Sphinx search took me 2.43 seconds.
 
Big Board search is next on the Agenda.

The Future
Development won't stop here. We already have plans for a range of new features in XenForo 1.2 and beyond.
Our attention will also return to the Big Board Search Solution and Resource Manager ...

[source]
 
While on the topic, Searching in Forums is TOO dependent on raw power.
To me, no forum software has done a great job with search.
I think much more thought should go into improving the search experience.
 
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