What's the best Django search app? [closed]

Answer 1

You might want to consider letting Yahoo do all the hard work with their Build your own Search Service (BOSS). Here is a great blog post that walks you through the process: http://www.peterkrantz.com/2008/yahoo-search-in-django/

Answer 2

Thanks Joe,

We decided to go with Tsearch2 and a custom postgres adaptor. Tsearch2 does not need an extra process to run, which was convenient since we are on a WebFaction hosting with limited memory... It's not completely done yet, but seems to be a good solution...

Answer 3

Justin, I'd try djangosearch first: Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django's lead developer) is working on it.

Potential hazards:

• The home page warns the API might not be entirely stable

Potential benefits:

• “The long term goal is for this to become django.contrib.search.”

Answer 4

I'd recommend Sphinx for full-text search and aggregation, and django-sphinx is good enough for production use. We found that Sphinx was the least resource-intensive and fastest way to index and search our documents and that django-sphinx was a nice wrapper on top of the sphinx client.

The group by aggregation is particularly nice, if for example you want to display how many documents with a certain tag or by a certain author (or both) matched a search. In memory attribute updates were convenient too, especially for removing deleted articles immediately.

Answer 5

I found Djoosh which relies on the pure-python external search engine Whoosh to work well with my 'Python' brain.

Answer 6

It looks like everyone here missed django-xappy

After quick evaluation of all existing search addons for Django, I found this one as most flexible and easiest to use. It's rough on the edges in few places, but it's still the best way to use power of Xapian search engine inside Django projects.