I've come up with my next chunk of functionality that I'd like to implement for this site - full text searching on blog posts. There appear to be several options:

• Xapian and acts_as_xapian
• Solr and acts_as_solr
• Sphinx and UltraSphinx
• Ferret and acts_as_ferret
• acts_as_indexed

UPDATED: I could also use MySQL fulltext indexes and just search those if I wanted to make it really easy ;)

I don't want anything complicated and I'd rather not add any big additional overhead to my already low on resources slice, so I'm leaning towards acts_as_indexed.

I realize that there'll be some work involved regardless since I'm not using ActiveRecord here and all of these plugins assume Rails.

Additionally, I'd like to be able to use/port the search solution within Django so that my Django mirror site works the same way.

Anyone out there have an opinion?