Techu - RESTful full-text searches with Sphinx, Redis, Nginx and Django

An extremely informative and well-designed site. I wish all open source projects had a section which explained why they chose the components that they have chosen and a high level diagram of how the technology works.

Why do you recommend easy_install (vs pip)? I have hardly any experience with easy_install so I'm always curious when projects use it.<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/why-use-pip-over-easy-install" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220404/why-use-pip-over-...</a>

This could be very powerful if it gets:<p>Clustering &#38; distributed indexing/searching<p>sphinx performance per node is amazing but it lacks clustering and if that comes along it will put serious pressure on ElasticSearch.

Project looks great. Great Github page too – is this a stock Github template?

For faceting, there's the fSphinx library:<p><a href="https://github.com/alexksikes/fSphinx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alexksikes/fSphinx</a>

Or, you know, just use elasticsearch.