Now that we have installed Sphinx, let's move forward and take a look at different search techniques and get acquainted with the different utilities Sphinx has to offer.

In this chapter we will take a dive into full-text search and look at different advantages of it. We will then see how Sphinx utilizes full-text search and also learn about indexer, search and searchd utilities that come along with Sphinx. We will also see a very basic example of how Sphinx works.