A few additional alternatives if you're using InnoDB:
1. Lucene
2. Sphinx (already mentioned below - really easy to work with)
3. SOLR (built on Lucene and also very nice to work with)
If you're indexing Asian language content and doing things like keyword density analysis, etc. then the above will only get you so far without additional work. If you're only working on latin based languages, you should be fine.
1. Lucene 2. Sphinx (already mentioned below - really easy to work with) 3. SOLR (built on Lucene and also very nice to work with)
If you're indexing Asian language content and doing things like keyword density analysis, etc. then the above will only get you so far without additional work. If you're only working on latin based languages, you should be fine.