Database search
Database search module provides a database based implementation of the Search API. The database and target to use for storing and accessing the indexes can be selected when creating a new server.
All Search API datatypes are supported by using appropriate SQL datatypes for their respective columns (with "String"/"URI", and "Integer"/"Duration" being equivalent).
The "direct" parse mode for queries will result in a simple splitting of the query string into keys. Additionally, search keys containing whitespace will be split, as searching for phrases is currently not supported.
Supporting optional features
- search_api_autocomplete
Introduced by module: search_api_autocomplete
You add auto completion capabilities to search forms on the site. (See also "Hidden variables" below for back end-specific customization.) NOTE: Due to internal database restrictions, this will perform significantly better if only a single field is used for auto-completion.
- search_api_facets
Introduced by module: search_api_facetapi
Allows you to create faceted searches for dynamically filtering search results.
If you feel some service option is missing, or have other ideas for improving this implementation, please file a feature request in the project's issue queue, at [http://drupal.org/project/issues/search_api], using the "Database search" component.
Known problems
Currently, Drupal doesn't support setting the table collation when creating tables. This might cause problems when you want to index data which can contain accented characters, umlauts and other non-ASCII characters (à, á, ä, …). To resolve the issue, please set "utf8_bin" as the collation for all tables starting with "search_api_db_". This has already been automated for MySQL databases in newer releases but must be done manually for other databases. See [1] for details.
[1] http://drupal.org/node/1144620
Also, using facets with a database server will only work if the database user Drupal is using has the "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES" permission (or similar, in DBMSs other than MySQL).
