Sunspot VS Thinking Sphinx

Compare Sunspot vs Thinking Sphinx and see what are their differences.

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Sunspot Thinking Sphinx
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2,966 1,622
0.0% -
3.8 1.7
about 1 month ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript Ruby
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Sunspot

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sunspot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Sunspot yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Thinking Sphinx

Posts with mentions or reviews of Thinking Sphinx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Thinking Sphinx yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Sunspot and Thinking Sphinx you can also consider the following projects:

ransack - Object-based searching.

Elasticsearch Rails - Elasticsearch integrations for ActiveModel/Record and Ruby on Rails

Searchkick - Intelligent search made easy

pg_search - pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search

elasticsearch-ruby - Ruby integrations for Elasticsearch

has_scope - Map incoming controller parameters to named scopes in your resources

Rroonga - The Ruby bindings of Groonga.