Apache Solr - Performance, Reliability, and No Headaches!
Updated April 10, 2017
Apache Solr - Performance, Reliability, and No Headaches!
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Apache Solr
At my company we use Apache Solr to help improve customer experience when it comes to searching and analyzing our large collections venue data on our web portal. Apache Solr allows us to restrict data based on geospatial features, organizing data into coupled groups using pivots, and provides the performance and ease of use that makes it great for developing with. It took only a few hours to have a successful proof of concept up and running and very few changes were needed out-of-the-box. The other benefit to working with Apache Solr is the active and large developer community and the well-maintained and easy to read resources.
- 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.
- Indexing of data can sometimes be a slog, meaning it can sometimes take a while to get a large collection up and running if you have many fields that need to be indexed.
- Elasticsearch offers better support and flexibility.
- It has improved the customer experience of our web portal customers and has given them more options and control for finding the data they need.
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 it can also be a cost saver compared to many other competitors.