Sphinx vs MeiliSearch: What are the differences?

What is Sphinx? Open source full text search server, designed from the ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and integration simplicity in mind. It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.

What is MeiliSearch? *Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API *. It is a powerful, fast, open-source, easy to use, and deploy search engine. The search and indexation are fully customizable and handles features like typo-tolerance, filters, and synonyms.

Sphinx and MeiliSearch belong to "Search Engines" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Sphinx are:

• Output formats: HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text
• Extensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of information
• Hierarchical structure: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children

On the other hand, MeiliSearch provides the following key features:

• Search as-you-type experience (answers < 50ms)
• Full-text search
• Typo tolerant (understands typos and spelling mistakes)

MeiliSearch is an open source tool with 731 GitHub stars and 24 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MeiliSearch's open source repository on GitHub.