History: Manticore Search

Manticore Search is an Open Source database that was created in 2017 as a continuation of Sphinx Search engine (Started in 2001). It will be integrated with Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware version 25 and become one of the components of WikiSuite.

How to install

It is normally this:

sudo apt-get install wikisuite-manticore

sudo apt-get install wikisuite-manticore

But as of 2022-10-03, you should temporarily use the nightly builds from https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Installation/Debian_and_Ubuntu#APT-repository because of required unreleased fixes.

Start service at server reboot

sudo systemctl enable manticore

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sudo systemctl enable manticore

The reboot to test

How to verify version

This also confirms it's running

root~# searchd -v
Manticore 5.0.2 348514c86@220530 dev (columnar 1.15.4 2fef34e@220522) (secondary 1.15.4 2fef34e@220522)
Copyright (c) 2001-2016, Andrew Aksyonoff
Copyright (c) 2008-2016, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)
Copyright (c) 2017-2022, Manticore Software LTD (https://manticoresearch.com)

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root~# searchd -v

Manticore 5.0.2 348514c86@220530 dev (columnar 1.15.4 2fef34e@220522) (secondary 1.15.4 2fef34e@220522)

Copyright (c) 2001-2016, Andrew Aksyonoff

Copyright (c) 2008-2016, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)

Copyright (c) 2017-2022, Manticore Software LTD (https://manticoresearch.com)

Indicate to Tiki to use Manticore Search

1. Pick Manticore as Unified search engine at tiki-admin.php?page=search
2. Rebuild index
3. Enjoy!

Configuration file

On Debian 10 and 11, it is located at /etc/manticoresearch/manticore.conf

Related links

• https://manticoresearch.com/about/
• https://dev.tiki.org/Manticore-Search
• https://gitlab.com/wikisuite/wikisuite-packages/-/tree/main/wikisuite-manticore/debian
• https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1805
• https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-elasticsearch/
• https://roadmap.manticoresearch.com