I currently use SphinxSE with MySQL, which essentially is Sphinx Full Text Search built into MySQL so I can do a "select" statement and pass all the parms for the Full Text Search. It works wonderfully, however I am switching my development tool to Morfik and I'm not sure Morfik is really going to work with MySQL as well as I need, so I am thinking of looking into FB. I would need Sphinx though for sure. I see where an old port of Sphinx was ported to FB, but don't know if anyone is going to do a new one, and/or if there is a better solution.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "zzotnik" <zzotnik@...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> This raises a lot of questions:
>
> Is the quality of the full-text search add-on good enough in Max DB
> for the creators of Firebird to include it in one of the new
> releases?
>
> The other thing is that if you look at the plans for Firebird 2.5
> (the next big version) full-text search is not on the list. Not even
> in 3.0. So theoretically, we won't have this feature for at least 2
> more years in the current pace of developments.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not an experienced C++ developer - otherwise I
> would consider porting the Sphinx DB parts to Firebird.
>
> But still, I hope that someone will consider this idea, as Sphinx is
> a really good FTS engine - a Firebird/Sphinx combo would be killer!
>
> Thanks:
> Zzotnik
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "maximshiryaev"
> <MaximShiryaev@> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like it's already in beta in Red Database.
> >
> > Read this: http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1659
> >
> > I hope that Java support will be incorporsted into the main branch.
> >
> >
> > Maxim.
> >
> >
> > ===============
> > ....
> > [firebird-support] When will be full-text search available for
> Firebird?
> > ....
> >
>