# Sphinx search for Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sphinx-search-for-discourse/12548>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 7, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sphinx-search-for-discourse/12548 "2014-02-07T23:29:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sphinx-search-for-discourse/12548/20 "2014-03-16T20:00:19Z")

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You can’t compare MySQL based boards where search is slow and painful to Discourse. One of the reasons it uses Postgresql is to work around those limitations.

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