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• Matching modes
• Boolean query syntax
• Extended query syntax
• Search results ranking
  • Ranking overview
  • Available built-in rankers
    • Legacy matching modes rankers
  • Quick summary of the ranking factors
  • Document-level ranking factors
  • Field-level ranking factors
  • Ranking factor aggregation functions
  • Formula expressions for all the built-in rankers
• Expressions, functions, and operators
  • Operators
  • Numeric functions
  • Date and time functions
  • Type conversion functions
  • Comparison functions
  • Miscellaneous functions
• Sorting modes
  • SPH_SORT_TIME_SEGMENTS mode
  • SPH_SORT_EXTENDED mode
  • SPH_SORT_EXPR mode
• Grouping (clustering) search results
• Distributed searching
• Query log formats
  • Plain log format
  • SphinxQL log format
• MySQL protocol support and SphinxQL
• HTTP protocol
• Multi-queries
• Collations
• Query cache
• MySQL storage engine (SphinxSE)
  • SphinxSE overview
    • Installing SphinxSE
    • Compiling MySQL 5.0.x with SphinxSE
    • Compiling MySQL 5.1.x with SphinxSE
    • Checking SphinxSE installation
    • Using SphinxSE
  • Building snippets (excerpts) via MySQL