The Seattle MySQL Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

Monthly discussion group on MySQL, and open source projects in general. In March we'll have Rich Kelm answering the age old question of "When to adopt a Sphinx (for Search)"

This presentation will provide a general overview of the basics in terms of the Sphinx search engine; in other-words, how one cares for and feeds it (documents). Not to mention, we will go over the unique characteristics of this search beast and what separates it from Full-Text search stand-ins such as MySQL. Then we launch a little deeper into the differences between MySQL's Full-Text Search and Sphinx's, and in what situations it would prove advantageous to adopt a Sphinx.

As always, you're welcome to bring questions and problems.

Sphinx will be providing beer and snacks!