Sphinx
Full-text search server, written in C++, that indexes files and SQL databases and answers queries over SphinxQL.
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Sphinx is a full-text search server written in C++. It indexes data from files and SQL databases, and clients query it through SphinxQL. The searchd process runs continuously and accepts connections, so a host has to keep it running. The project distributes prebuilt binaries, and its SQL data sources use native drivers for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
The company behind Sphinx is Sphinx Technologies Inc., which the project’s about page describes as a private company based in the United States.
Worth knowing
The project no longer publishes Sphinx under an open-source license, and says the sources are available to commercial clients. The GitHub repository holds the older sources, which carry a GPL license.
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Rendering and deploy
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- 2026-10-28: links
sphinxsearch.com/ - 2026-10-28: links, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/sphinxsearch/sphinx - 2026-10-28: links, Written in, Categories, License, Runs as, Databases
sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html - 2026-10-28: Maintainer, Maintained by, Headquarters
sphinxsearch.com/about/company/ - 2026-10-28: Runtime, Install with, Current major version, Last release
sphinxsearch.com/downloads/current/ - 2026-10-28: License
sphinxsearch.com/downloads/ - 2026-10-28: First release
sphinxsearch.com/downloads/archive/ - 2026-10-28: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/sphinxsearch/sphinx/contributors