We learned about SphinxQL, which can be accessed using a regular MySQL client
We saw different statements supported by SphinxQL
We saw different cases when Sphinx can be used
We saw a few popular websites (and some statistics) that use Sphinx
We have covered all the topics that should get you started with using Sphinx in your projects. The beauty of Sphinx is that it is almost language independent. Sphinx client API implementations are available for numerous programming languages.