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    Apache Solr

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AApache Solr is an open-source enterprise search server.N/A

    Inbenta Enterprise Search

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Inbenta is a conversational intelligence technology provider headquartered in Sunnyvale. Inbenta Search is a search tool built with the vendor’s Symbolic AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims to help the user reduce support cost by understanding customers’ questions and quickly delivering the most relevant answers, providing a self-service solution to customer support.N/A
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    Apache SolrInbenta Enterprise Search
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsInbenta is a scalable solution. The vendor charges based on the number of sessions or searches that occur on the user's support site. The vendor also offers free trials with certain partner integrations including Zendesk and Salesforce Desk.com.
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    Apache Solr to Inbenta is like Java to Python. Apache Solr is powerful and handles complex search platforms well. Inbenta, on the other hand, is meant to be easy to use and does not lay too much emphasis on performance. If you are a small or medium business, Inbenta may suit …
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    User Ratings
    Apache SolrInbenta Enterprise Search
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    Apache SolrInbenta Enterprise Search
    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.
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    Inbenta Technologies Inc.
    If you are looking for an enterprise search platform that offers an easy to use interface and if high performance is not really your priority, then I believe Inbenta Enterprise Search would fit your use case. For most other situations, I would recommend using a tried and tested search platform like Apache Solr.
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    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.
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    Inbenta Technologies Inc.
    • Fairly easy to use interface.
    • Quick to onboard new users, both in terms of access as well as training.
    • The NLP-based semantic search feature is quite impressive.
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    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.
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    Inbenta Technologies Inc.
    • It is a fairly new tool in the market, so not much market feedback exists for this. This made us apprehensive in using it.
    • The documentation and online forums are bare minimum.
    • Quite buggy when working with multiple sources.
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    Usability
    Apache
    It takes some time to deploy and currectly maintein it. And also, to learn how to use and integrate in the enviroment as well. Once you get theses steps done, it usability is very simple, and almost of the time it don't require no further attention on it. Even for maintence, if you deploy it on a cluster mode, it is very reliable and easy to take one host down.
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    Inbenta Technologies Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apache
    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 will be a little less expensive and offer more customization and flexibility.
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    Inbenta Technologies Inc.
    Apache Solr to Inbenta is like Java to Python. Apache Solr is powerful and handles complex search platforms well. Inbenta, on the other hand, is meant to be easy to use and does not lay too much emphasis on performance. If you are a small or medium business, Inbenta may suit your needs better. However, if you wish to manage a large and complex search platform, Solr is the way to go.
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    Return on Investment
    Apache
    • It has enabled my organization to find information faster by being a one-stop service to search across content that were indexed from varying sources.
    • By using synonyms and usual lemmatizations / stemming, it enabled discovery of new content following every search.
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    Inbenta Technologies Inc.
    • Enabled our developers to quickly deploy changes to the search model.
    • NLP-powered semantic search feedback provides good actionable insights.
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