Apache Solr

Apache Solr

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Apache Solr	Score 6.6 out of 10	N/A	Apache Solr is an open-source enterprise search server.	N/A

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	Apache Solr
Considered Both Products	Apache Solr Verified User Engineer Chose Apache Solr Apache Solr is a ready-to-use product addressing specific use cases such as keyword searches from a huge set of data documents. Incentivized Helpful? TN trang nguyen Software Engineer Chose Apache Solr We have considering AWS search and Elastic search but decide to go with Solr as we need high speed and flexible query, and so far it meets all our requirement so we still continue with Solr. Helpful? Richard Davies Web Application Developer Chose Apache Solr We tried to use both Elasticsearch and Swiftype with Drupal 8 but there are currently no good modules that integrate Drupal with those solutions. So Solr was really the only option for a Drupal 8 web site. It's not as easy to learn or use as Swiftype, but in the end I think it … Incentivized Helpful? Robyne Gallacher Associate Software Tester Chose Apache Solr Before using Solr, we used a self-made search engine. Solr has helped us increase our capacity to serve our customers the results they are looking for easily without breaking down. Our previous platform was not dynamic enough to accommodate our growing traffic or smart enough … Incentivized Helpful? Kelvin Yeo Senior Search Engineer Chose Apache Solr Azure Search is not as mature as Apache Solr at this point. So the range of query flexibility is less than Solr. Also, when indexing content goes beyond 1 TB, it might become costly for Azure Search. Incentivized Helpful? Bharadwaj (Brad) Chivukula Sr.Technical Manager/Delivery Manager Chose Apache Solr Between Solr and ElasticSearch, there is a constant struggle to pick the best one. ElasticSearch is part of ELK and ties in well with LogStash and Kibana which makes it great for logs and big data stuff. Add some logs and see which works best for your particular access methods … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Apache Solr Apache Solr in general stacks up very well to its competitors, it provides much of the same features and performance and has the benefits of being an open-source project with an active contributor base that works consistently and improves the platform. Depending on your setup … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Feddo Senior Front End Developer Chose Apache Solr We switched from search indexes stored in MySQL to soar and it's made a world of difference for our growing businesses. The relational databases are very poor for handling the complex data searches require and Solr delivered all the tools we need to get the performance our end … Incentivized Helpful? Philippe Kozak Senior Consultant Chose Apache Solr Some people on my team tried MondoDB and had several problems (don't remember which ones). Elasticsearch would be a good choice but we didn't have it in our minds when we made the choice. Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Production environment Pro Business needs Pro Data sets
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Data center Minus Difficult to integrate

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	Apache Solr
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (10 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apache Solr
Likelihood to Recommend	Apache Solr spins up nicely and works effectively for small enterprise environments providing helpful mechanisms for fuzzy searches and facetted searching. For larger enterprises with complex business solutions you'll find the need to hire an expert Solr engineer to optimize the powerful platform to your needs. Internationalization is tricky with Solr and many hosting solutions may limit you to a latin character set. Incentivized Peter Feddo Senior Front End Developer Read full review
Pros	Apache Easy to get started with Apache Solr. Whether it is tackling a setup issue or trying to learn some of the more advanced features, there are plenty of resources to help you out and get you going. Performance. Apache Solr allows for a lot of custom tuning (if needed) and provides great out of the box performance for searching on large data sets. Maintenance. After setting up Solr in a production environment there are plenty of tools provided to help you maintain and update your application. Apache Solr comes with great fault tolerance built in and has proven to be very reliable. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Apache These examples are due to the way we use Apache Solr. I think we have had the same problems with other NoSQL databases (but perhaps not the same solution). High data volumes of data and a lot of users were the causes. We have lot of classifications and lot of data for each classification. This gave us several problems: First: We couldn't keep all our data in Solr. Then we have all data in our MySQL DB and searching data in Solr. So we need to be sure to update and match the 2 databases in the same time. Second: We needed several load balanced Solr databases. Third: We needed to update all the databases and keep old data status. If I don't speak about problems due to our lack of experience, the main Solr problem came from frequency of updates vs validation of several database. We encountered several locks due to this (our ops team didn't want to use real clustering, so all DB weren't updated). Problem messages were not always clear and we several days to understand the problems. Philippe Kozak Senior Consultant Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Apache Apache Solr is a ready-to-use product addressing specific use cases such as keyword searches from a huge set of data documents. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Apache Improved response time in e-commerce websites. Developer's job is easier with Apache Solr in use. Customization in filtering and sorting is possible. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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