XF 2.0 Any plans to support sphinxsearch?

[Mayhem30]

Do you have any plans to support Sphinx?

I would use Elasticsearch, but it's extremely bloatware. Sphinx only requires 5 packages to be installed on the server to run, Elasticsearch requires 91 packages. There is no way I could ever install something with that many dependencies, especially when trying save as much resources as possible for anything else running on the server.

 

[Mike]

The short answer is no, there aren't any plans to support Sphinx.

 

[Jake B.]

I believe @digitalpoint has an add-on for Sphinx support in XF1, not sure if he is planning on moving that to XF2 as I believe it was built before XF's ElasticSearch add-on was made available

 

[digitalpoint]

I believe @digitalpoint has an add-on for Sphinx support in XF1, not sure if he is planning on moving that to XF2 as I believe it was built before XF's ElasticSearch add-on was made available

Nope, my Sphinx thing was for vBulletin. ES is a better choice for a backend compared to Sphinx.

 

[Jake B.]

Ah, never mind then

 

[mikez006]

My server currently has Sphinx search installed because we're running VB4. However we're now migrating to XF2. Can I install ES on the server even though Sphinx is already installed?

 

[Chris D]

I don't think that would be an issue, no.