# Sphinx search for Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sphinx-search-for-discourse/12548>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [2월 7, 2014, 11:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sphinx-search-for-discourse/12548 "2014-02-07T23:29:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![katie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/katie/32/114266_2.png) [@katie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/katie)\
**Post date:** [2월 8, 2014, 2:11오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sphinx-search-for-discourse/12548/3 "2014-02-08T02:11:21Z")

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Hi, why not Sphinx search ? I am not familiar with PostgreSQL but would it not face issues with big communities and high activity? If so, then i recommend Sphinx, it is light and doesn’t add stress on the server. It is great actually =)

Is there any future plan for it? allowing two options may be ? One that can use the Sphinx and another to use PostgreSQL. I am not sure if Sphinx works with Ruby. I am not familiar with this part.

I only found this [GitHub - pat/thinking-sphinx: Sphinx/Manticore plugin for ActiveRecord/Rails · GitHub](https://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx)

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