Endeca (discontinued)

Endeca is brilliant for setting up simple and straightforward search platforms that utilise only basic search rules. On the other hand, Apache Solr supports far more complex search platform implementations, including multi-index search. Overall, I would say Solr is far more powerful than Endeca.

Oracle Endeca was the best option that we evaluated by far. It gave us the most flexibility and ability to meet our objectives and had features that were not offered by the competing products we evaluated, but which we very much wanted, and this was why we decided to go with Oracle Endeca versus another platform.

Apache Solr, Lucene, Adobe Search and Promote, Google Commerce Search, Amazon Cloud Search

Endeca is much better than ATG for searching ATG's catalog.

Solr - pros: opensource costs / cons: limited developer tooling Adobe AEM - pros: experience management tooling for business users / cons: limited functionality around search.

Endeca is at the same level with largest enterprise search providers. However, it does surpass them in the ability to fine tune and customize search configuration.

The Endeca stack is a good solution to solve a plethora of data problems but its value has to merit its cost. Overall, it provides a better solution than most products out there. It requires an initial technical investment to get the solution going but once this is achieved you may not need as many technical people (development) as competing products (e.g Solr) to expand into new solutions. Endeca provides a better user interface than other products, thus making it easier for business user or less technical people to maintain.

Compared to Elasticsearch, Endeca has many out-of the box features that you'll have to code yourself if you're using Elasticsearch. Also, Endeca is a commercial-grade solution, Elasticsearch is still probably in the startup category, although they are gaining traction rapidly.

We have not looked at alternatives other than open source, but it does have a leg up but it comes with a very high cost.

I use Microsoft Commerce Server today, but I would recommend Endeca any day.

I described it earlier. Again, Solr is much simpler to learn, use and develop, much more intuitive. As an open source resource, Solr is a great tool. And because of adoption by IBM WebSphere Commerce, the decision to abandon Endeca is easy.

We used Endeca in conjunction w/ Blue Martini to run our estore. In comparison, Endeca was much easier to use and provided higher results.