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I realize that MySQL 5.6 is still in beta, but does anyone have experience using the new InnoDB FTS engine? How does it compare to something like Sphinx?
Thanks Jason
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MySQL has support for full-text indexing and searching: A full-text index in MySQL is an index of type FULLTEXT . Full-text indexes can be used only with InnoDB or MyISAM tables, and can be created only for CHAR , VARCHAR , or TEXT columns.
InnoDB doesn't have built-in fulltext search capabilities.
The basic query format of full-text searches in MySQL should be similar to the following: SELECT * FROM table WHERE MATCH(column) AGAINST(“string” IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE); When MATCH() is used together with a WHERE clause, the rows are automatically sorted by the highest relevance first.
Never used Sphinx, but tried MySQL 5.6 FTS on an Innodb table with about 170k rows. Made an FTS index on the name column (contains all names of a person). To find a word in any position of the string MATCH(name) AGAINST("+word*") IN BOOLEAN MODE does work a lot faster (2-3 times in my case) than using name LIKE "word%" OR name LIKE "% word". However when making joins do check EXPLAIN to see if the FTS index is actually used. It seems MySQL optimizer is not that good at guessing when the FTS index should be used.
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The FULLTEXT feature that formerly required downloading a special build from labs.mysql.com is now part of the mainline MySQL build in 5.6.5 and up (still in beta). The documentation for the FULLTEXT functions now includes the InnoDB-specific details: MySQL Full-Text Search Functions
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