Mroonga-based full-text search module has been updated for Omeka-S 3.0

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MroongaSearch module that enables full-text search of various languages including Chinese, Japanes, and Korean, has been updated for Omeka S version 3.0 or later.

GitHub - fukuchi/Omeka-S-module-mroonga-search: Omeka S module enabling...

MroongaSearch uses Mroonga plugin, developed for MySQL and MariaDB. Unlike the Solr module, you only need to install this module - no special configuration is required. For the further information about installation can be found here:

2. Install — Mroonga v13.05 documentation

If you are using Debian or Ubuntu, Mroonga plugin is officially included in the stable release.

See this thread for the detailed discussion:

Using Mroonga to enable full-text search of CJK text

Hi, I’m testing Omeka S’s full-text search feature. While the default full-text search support of MySQL/MariaDB’s InnoDB works very will for English, it cannot index Japanese text (probably the same in Chinese or Korean). Instead of using Solr module, I have tested Mroonga, a plugin for MySQL/MariaDB that provides a better CJK full-text search and it worked satisfactorily as far as I tested. (only tested with test data) Using Mroonga is quite simple - just ALTER TABLE the ‘fulltext_search’ ta…