fanfannothing / techu-search-server

RESTful search server built on top of Sphinx full-text search engine. Uses realtime indexes, Django, Nginx & Redis.

Techu v0.1-beta

RESTful search built on top of Sphinx full-text search engine.

• Organize your Sphinx configurations with Techu database schema
• Re-use index and searchd parameters
• Automatically regenerate configurations and restart searchd
• Easy & efficient document indexing using HTTP calls and passing data in JSON format
• Asynchronous execution of statements using Redis as a buffer
• Bulk insert feature for fast index rebuilding
• Perform full-text search fast using JSON to provide attribute filters, sorting parameters and grouping
• Retrieve highlighted excerpts (snippets) from documents, compliant with the search query syntax
• Cache search results and excerpts directly to Redis

Components

• Realtime indexes
• Django Framework
• Nginx web server
• Redis in-memory key-value storage
• MySQL

Take a look at the overview page.

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Still a beta version and requires a lot of work to be done (and much more documentation as well, especially regarding the /search request!). I am also preparing some benchmarks. I would be very thankful for any constructive criticism and anyone willing to test it!

Stay tuned!