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Apache Solr Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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Apache Solr Reviews & Ratings

4.2

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Based on 98 ratings & 39 reviews

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Apache Solr is a powerful, scalable, and stable search engine that stands out for its ease of use and quick setup. Users appreciate its quick learning curve, easy client-side coding, and efficient indexing capabilities. The admin UI provides valuable insights, making monitoring and debugging straightforward. The ability to handle large datasets and support ...Read more

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Marshall M

09/08/16

3.5 out of 5

Powerful, flexible search engine

What do you like best? Solr is a very powerful, very flexible search engine. It is very fast and stable when configured correctly. Solr allows you to build your own custom request handlers and allows you to import data from pretty much any datasource. It is extendible, allowing you write your own plugins/importers to expand the built-in functionality. It's performance, scalability, and extendability make it a solid choice for powering real-time searches. What do you dislike? At ...

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06/08/16

4.5 out of 5

Easy of indexing the data

What do you like best? REST API for accessing and validating the data/records What do you dislike? new version release need to retesting existing code to make sure nothing breaks. Recommendations to others considering the product: Can be used for real time notification and recommendation engine considering the latest user settings. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? real time notification and recommendation engine considering the ...

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Ameya K

06/08/16

4.5 out of 5

Easy of indexing the data

What do you like best? REST API for accessing and validating the data/records What do you dislike? new version release need to retesting existing code to make sure nothing breaks. Recommendations to others considering the product: Can be used for real time notification and recommendation engine considering the latest user settings. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? real time notification and recommendation engine ...

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03/22/16

4.5 out of 5

Used as a replacement for Oracle Search with great improvements

What do you like best? Solr is a very quick and easy way to search for keywords within a document, the ability to add weightings to search terms to increase the outcome of search relevance gives it great flexibility. It has a great user interface to be able to search your data and create your search query, as well as check the status of the server and cache. It was easy to hook this search into our code base, using the search url What do you dislike? The way you index the data to ...

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Andrew C

03/22/16

4.5 out of 5

Used as a replacement for Oracle Search with great improvements

What do you like best? Solr is a very quick and easy way to search for keywords within a document, the ability to add weightings to search terms to increase the outcome of search relevance gives it great flexibility. It has a great user interface to be able to search your data and create your search query, as well as check the status of the server and cache. It was easy to hook this search into our code base, using the search url What do you dislike? The way you index the ...

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03/18/16

5 out of 5

Best Search Engine so far

What do you like best? The customisability of the solr is so good that anyone can set it up and customise it for his/her needs Aslo the documentation provided is too good The inbuilt filters are more than sufficient for any of your needs and also you can customise them as per your need there are various features of solr that are helping us in our buisnesss What do you dislike? I have had many issues with multi word synonyms it simply doesn't work Recommendations to others ...

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Ashish M

03/18/16

5 out of 5

Best Search Engine so far

What do you like best? The customisability of the solr is so good that anyone can set it up and customise it for his/her needs Aslo the documentation provided is too good The inbuilt filters are more than sufficient for any of your needs and also you can customise them as per your need there are various features of solr that are helping us in our buisnesss What do you dislike? I have had many issues with multi word synonyms it simply doesn't work Recommendations to ...

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03/10/16

4.5 out of 5

Amazing search engine with great search capabilities

What do you like best? Learning experience Easy to use Precise documentation What do you dislike? Do not have automatic auto scaling (Clustering, nodes and sharding similar to Elasticsearch Recommendations to others considering the product: Catch up with Elasticsearch What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Search capabilities that hard to achieve using relational databases

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Manjunath R

03/10/16

4.5 out of 5

Amazing search engine with great search capabilities

What do you like best? Learning experience Easy to use Precise documentation What do you dislike? Do not have automatic auto scaling (Clustering, nodes and sharding) similar to Elasticsearch Recommendations to others considering the product: Catch up with Elasticsearch What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Search capabilities that hard to achieve using relational databases

01/30/16

4.5 out of 5

A Simple, Yet Capable Search Platform

What do you like best? Solr is a fairly straight forward product, that does what ti's supposed to with minimal maintenance. The platform is easily administrated via web portal, and allows for thorough awareness and assessment of the platform itself at any time. What do you dislike? We are on an older version of Solr, so most of my dislikes around the clunkiness of the UI has been fixed in newer versions as far as I can tell. Overall the product is very usable though,and it is hard to ...

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