SphinxSE. Open Source Search Server. Documentation. Sphinx (search engine) Like other DBMS's, Sphinx can be used as a stand-alone server.
It can be used to communicate with other DBMS's by using native protocols of MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL, or by using ODBC with ODBC-compliant DBMS's. And, Sphinx can also be used as a storage engine ("SphinxSE") for MySQL and its forks. MariaDB, a fork of MySQL, is distributed with SphinxSE.[1] The Sphinx search daemon supports MySQL binary network protocol and can be accessed with the regular MySQL API.