Question

I am looking for a very fast autocomplete solution for displaying results in mobile apps. I am using sphinx as full text index solution, but I thing if sphinx is the best one solution for autocomplete search, because after the index is searched, then I need to ask mysql for the results. Is there better and faster solution?

Answer 1

Well you can use string attributes, to store the actual text.

Then you don’t need to go back to the database at all. Can just query sphinx. Sphinx stores attributes in memory; so doesn’t slow the actual sphinx query searching down noticeably.

Sphinx works well for autocomplete in my experience.