Sphinx is a standalone full text search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with sql databases and scripting languages. currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to mysql or postgresql, or using xml pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special xml-based format which sphinx recognizes).

sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as sql phrase index.

this package contains the client library for python.