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2026 53

  1. We Asked for Socks, Got Pants: Six Ways to Search the Same Product Catalog
  2. New Percentile and Median Absolute Deviation Aggregations in Manticore
  3. Manticore Search: mmap speeds up columnar KNN rescoring
  4. How search works in Kiva's SaaS, where every customer has their own database
  5. Beyond MariaDB full-text search: how wine.co.za made about 145,000 records easier to search with Manticore
  6. Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Strategies Inside Manticore Search
  7. How Bookbot powers 3.5 million saved searches and ~10% of revenue with Manticore Search
  8. Manticore Search 29.9.0: Chunked auto-embeddings and mmap columnar access
  9. Explore Manticore Data with OpenSearch Dashboards
  10. How to return top-N per group with GROUP_CONCAT()
  11. How to search for long hashes and IDs with dict='keywords_32k'
  12. How KupujemProdajem searches 5.6 million ads at ~10 ms with Manticore Search
  13. Conversational Search: Full-Text Search Still Works. It Just Doesn’t Get You to an Answer
  14. Manticore Search 29.0.2: Better sharded-table operations and safer maintenance
  15. UUID in Manticore: A Practical Guide
  16. UUID in Manticore: a single ID for the primary database and Manticore
  17. Manticore Search 28.6.6: UUID document IDs, ordered GROUP_CONCAT(), and 16 fixes
  18. Faceted search under active filters
  19. Install Manticore Search with one command
  20. Meilisearch vs Manticore: Setting the Record Straight
  21. Manticore Search authentication rollout and security checklist for production
  22. How to secure Manticore Search with built-in authentication and authorization
  23. Built-in authentication and authorization for Manticore Search
  24. Manticore Search 28.4.4: Faster KNN, better conversational search, easier installs and more faceting controls
  25. Turbopuffer vs. Manticore Search: vector database benchmark on a couple of cheap VPS
  26. Database sharding in Manticore Search: automatic distribution and replication
  27. Faster HNSW index builds in Manticore
  28. 14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore
  29. Manticore Search under systemd: beyond fork, PID files, and guesswork
  30. Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512
  31. Manticore Search 27.1.5: Authentication, sharded tables, conversational search and faster vector search
  32. KNN early termination in Manticore Search
  33. The Evolution of 'More Like This'
  34. How to Make xt850 Match xt 850
  35. How to Speed Up Phrase Search with bigram_index
  36. Build a Searchable Catalog with Filters, Facets, and Semantic Search
  37. How Indexfox Built an AI-Powered Site Search Widget on Manticore
  38. Monitor Manticore Search in Grafana with One Command
  39. Why monitoring your search engine matters: Manticore → Prometheus → Grafana
  40. Manticore Search 25.0.0
  41. KNN prefiltering in Manticore Search
  42. Parallel chunk merging in Manticore Search
  43. Hybrid search in Manticore Search
  44. SQL prepared statements in Manticore Search
  45. S3 Streamable Backup: Direct-to-Cloud Backups for Manticore Search
  46. MCP-Manticore: Let Your AI Assistant Write Manticore Queries for You
  47. Manticore Search on Microsoft Azure: DX1's Story
  48. Azure AI Search vs Manticore Search
  49. Inline Stopwords, Exceptions, and Wordforms
  50. Manticore Search 17.5.1
  51. Manticore Search at Scale on Google Cloud: Locally's Story
  52. Searching in Vietnamese with Manticore Search
  53. Manticore Search 2025 recap

2025 24

  1. Manticore Search 15.1.0 Released
  2. Manticore Search 14.1.0: Force Bigrams and Bug Fixes
  3. Autocomplete: Making Search More User-Friendly
  4. Introducing Auto Embeddings: AI-Powered Search Made Simple
  5. Manticore Search 13.11.0: Introducing Auto Embeddings and Enhanced AI Search
  6. Manticore Search 13.6.7: OR Operator Support, Distributed Table Joins, and Bug Fixes
  7. OR Inside Phrase, Quorum and Proximity Search
  8. Introducing Vector Quantization in Manticore Search
  9. Manticore Search 13.2.3: Faster Vector Search, Lower RAM Usage, and Better Compatibility
  10. Manticore Search 10.1.0: Prometheus Integration, Enhanced Monitoring, and Major Improvements
  11. Mastering Fuzzy Search with Manticore Search
  12. Vector Search in Manticore Search: A Deep Dive
  13. Manticore Search 9.3.2: Enhanced Table Usage Tracking, Memory Optimization and Stability Improvements
  14. Integrating Kafka with Manticore Search: A Step-by-Step Guide to Real-Time Data Processing
  15. Manticore Search 9.2.14: Boolean Query Optimization, Fuzzy Search Improvements and Bug Fixes
  16. Understanding Pagination in Manticore Search
  17. Manticore Search vs Elasticsearch: 3x Faster Kibana Dashboard Rendering for Log Analysis
  18. About Versioning in Manticore
  19. Manticore Search 7.4.6: Kibana Integration, Performance Optimizations, and Critical Fixes
  20. Mastering Manticore Search: RT vs Plain Mode Explained
  21. Creating Tables in Manticore Search: The Complete Guide
  22. Manticore Search 7.0.0: Smarter Search, Real-Time Syncing, and Enhanced Performance
  23. Manticore Search Re-indexing with mysqldump
  24. Manticore Load Emulator

2024 24

  1. Text-to-Image Search with Manticore Search
  2. How We Added Autocomplete to Our GitHub Search Demo
  3. Building a Reverse Image Search app with Manticore Search
  4. How ClauseBase Uses Manticore Vector Search to Improve Contract Drafting
  5. New fuzzy search and autocomplete in Manticore Search
  6. Semantic Search on GitHub with Vector Search
  7. Database replication: cluster creation, joining, updating table settings
  8. About Columnar storage in Manticore Search
  9. Full-text Search vs Vector Search
  10. Full-Text Search vs. Semantic Search: Exploring Advanced Search Technologies
  11. Lexical Search vs. Vector Search: Exploring the Differences and Key Aspects
  12. Manticore Search 6.3.0
  13. Vector search in Manticore
  14. Mike learning: REPLACE, UPDATE, wordforms
  15. Mike: learning: First steps
  16. Lexical Search vs. Semantic Search: Understanding the Differences and Use Cases
  17. Fuzzy Search vs. Vector Search: Exploring Modern Search Technologies
  18. Building and testing Manticore Search
  19. How to use Elasticdump with Manticore
  20. Demo: GitHub search with Manticore Search
  21. Vector search in old and modern databases
  22. Fuzzy Search vs. Semantic Search: Unraveling Advanced Search Technologies
  23. Advanced Full-Text Matching with Manticore Search's REGEX Operator
  24. Fuzzy Search vs Lexical Search: Understanding Modern Search Techniques

2023 15

  1. Manticore Search in 2023
  2. Manticore Search in the ROSS Index Q3 2023
  3. Manticore Buddy: plugin architecture v2
  4. Manticore Search 6.2.0
  5. Apache Superset Integration
  6. Grafana integration: Manticore Search as a data source
  7. Integration of Manticore with Fluentbit
  8. Integration of Manticore with Logstash/Filebeat
  9. Integration of Manticore with Vector.dev
  10. Meilisearch vs Manticore Search
  11. Manticore Buddy: pluggable design
  12. New database backup and recovery approaches in Manticore Search
  13. Manticore Buddy: challenges and solutions
  14. Introducing Buddy: the PHP sidecar for Manticore Search
  15. Manticore Search 6

2022 4

  1. PHP client: what's new
  2. Manticore: a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++ with a 21-year history
  3. Wordforms vs exceptions
  4. Manticore Search 5

2021 6

  1. Manticore Search 4.2.0: 10x faster SELECT, major bugs fixed, Debian Bullseye support
  2. Beta testers wanted for pseudo-sharding
  3. Manticore Search 4.0.2: full columnar store support, auto index compaction, locks system revamp, pseudo sharding
  4. Manticore Search 3.6.0: columnar store support, UK lemmatizer, faster JSON, 30+ bug fixes
  5. Manticore Search: 3 years after forking from Sphinx
  6. Elasticsearch -> Manticore Search data migration tool

2020 11

  1. Manticore Search 3.5.4: Python, Java and Javascript clients and faster OPTIMIZE
  2. Manticore Search 3.5.2: optimized OPTIMIZE, standalone NOT, faceting via HTTP and more
  3. Introduction to full-text operators and basic search
  4. Manticore 3.5.0: new multitasking mode, 50+ bugfixes, new manual, APT repo and more
  5. Manticore Search - RT mode - index administration Definitive Guide
  6. About new Real-Time mode
  7. Faceted search
  8. How to highlight search results
  9. Simple autocomplete with Manticore
  10. Manticore 3.4.0: online schema change, new PHP client and docker image
  11. Manticore Search 3.3.0: multi-threaded RT, CREATE TABLE, EXPLAIN QUERY and more

2019 32

  1. Manticore Search: recap of 2019
  2. Did you mean: spelling suggestions with CALL SUGGEST
  3. Manticore Search 3.2.2 release
  4. Manticore Search Indexes and document storage
  5. Manticore Search 3.2.0 release
  6. SSL support: HTTPS interface
  7. How we've remade system threads in Manticore Search
  8. Installing Manticore Search from Manticore yum repository
  9. Manticore Search 3.1.2 release
  10. Go client for Manticore Search
  11. Debian Buster support
  12. Introduction in replication course
  13. Manticore Search Homebrew tap is here
  14. New way of tokenization of Chinese
  15. Manticore Search 3.1.0 release
  16. Migrating to Manticore 3: document ids
  17. Introduction to replication for percolate indexes
  18. MySQL source wasn't initialized. Wrong name in dlopen?
  19. New options for loading indexes
  20. Manticore Search 3.0.2 GA release
  21. Manticore 2.8.2 vs 3.0 - 2x faster in some tests
  22. How kill-lists changed in Manticore Search 3
  23. Benchmark: Manticore 3 vs Sphinx 3 - now even faster
  24. Migrating indexes to version 3
  25. Manticore Search 3.0.0 is now available
  26. Interactive online courses
  27. TF-IDF explained in a nutshell
  28. Manticore Search 2.8.2 GA release
  29. Manticore Search 2.8.1 GA release
  30. Default charset tables and stopwords files
  31. Manticore 2.7.5 vs Sphinx 3.1.1
  32. Manticore Search 2.8.0 GA release

2018 44

  1. Regular expressions in Manticore Search
  2. About startup, mmap, mlock and --force-preread
  3. Manticore Search 2.7.5 GA release
  4. Relevance scoring in Manticore : part II
  5. Threads in Manticore Search
  6. Manticore Search 2.7.4 GA release
  7. Manticore Search 2.7.3 GA release
  8. Relevance scoring in Manticore : part I
  9. Sphinx UDF example
  10. Can Manticore work without MySQL?
  11. Indexes load at startup
  12. Manticore Search 2.7.2 GA release
  13. FATAL: port 0 is out of range
  14. Migrating from the Sphinx search engine
  15. Improvements in Manticore Search 2.7: networking, from asynchronous DNS to TCP Fast Open
  16. Improvements in Manticore Search 2.7: local indexes management
  17. Using Manticore Search with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language documents
  18. Manticore Search 2.7.1 GA release
  19. Percolate queries: Schemaless JSON and expression filtering
  20. Percolate Queries: docs_id option
  21. Using ProxySQL to route INSERTs in a distributed RealTime index
  22. Manticore Search 2.7.0 GA release
  23. Scripting in config with a PHP shebang
  24. Dictionary types: CRC vs keywords
  25. From SphinxSE to FEDERATED
  26. Manticore Search 2.6.4 GA release
  27. Profiling queries
  28. Phrase suggestions using a single SUGGEST call
  29. Percolate queries: Manticore Search vs Luwak
  30. Building 1M docs index having no one real doc
  31. Basics of Manticore Indexes
  32. Getting started with Manticore Search in Docker
  33. Manticore Search 2.6.3 GA release
  34. Research on Jemalloc vs malloc
  35. Sphinx 3 vs Manticore: performance benchmark
  36. Preserving the order of search result set from Manticore Search
  37. Manticore Search kill-list feature
  38. Plain indexes replication
  39. Manticore Search 2.6.2 GA release
  40. Minimal configuration to play with Manticore Search
  41. Fuzzy matching and 2nd pass query
  42. Percolate queries: Manticore Search vs Elasticsearch
  43. Manticore Search 2.6.1 GA release
  44. An introduction to the HTTP JSON API

2017 5

  1. Manticore Search 2.6.0 release
  2. Percolate Queries
  3. Manticore Search 2.5.1 Release
  4. Manticore Search 2.4.1 GA release
  5. Announcing Manticore Search – a Feature-Rich Open Source Full-Text Search Engine