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Likelihood to Recommend

9.0
Apache Solr
90%
10 Ratings
8.0
Inbenta Enterprise Search
80%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Apache Solr
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.
Senior Front End Developer
GSATiComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Inbenta Enterprise Search
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Apache Solr
- 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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Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesInbenta Enterprise Search
- 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Apache Solr
- 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.
Senior Consultant
EquancyInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Inbenta Enterprise Search
- 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Apache Solr
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Inbenta Enterprise Search
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Required
Starting Price
—Alternatives Considered
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.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering Company, 5001-10,000 employeesInbenta Enterprise Search
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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Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Apache Solr
- Improved response time in e-commerce websites.
- Developer's job is easier with Apache Solr in use.
- Customization in filtering and sorting is possible.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesInbenta Enterprise Search
- Enabled our developers to quickly deploy changes to the search model.
- NLP-powered semantic search feedback provides good actionable insights.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees