Apache Solr

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 ...

Real time complex search with SOLR

What do you like best? * Powerful real time search capability. SOLR can do partial matching search, phonetic search, synonym search and return the result instantly. * Distributed architecture for scalability and availability. * Open source with low cost of ownership What do you dislike? * CPU consumption can be high in some cases. * No built-in monitoring and alerting function for production system. Recommendations to others considering the product: If you need real time ...

Real time complex search with SOLR

What do you like best? * Powerful real time search capability. SOLR can do partial matching search, phonetic search, synonym search and return the result instantly. * Distributed architecture for scalability and availability. * Open source with low cost of ownership What do you dislike? * CPU consumption can be high in some cases. * No built-in monitoring and alerting function for production system. Recommendations to others considering the product: If you need ...

Fast search index

What do you like best? Solr is extremely fast indexing tool that is easy to configure. It’s dev panel also allows for an ease of debugging. What do you dislike? I dislike the documentation around it. It is hard to follow What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Indexing file names for a search engine

Fast search index

What do you like best? Solr is extremely fast indexing tool that is easy to configure. It’s dev panel also allows for an ease of debugging. What do you dislike? I dislike the documentation around it. It is hard to follow What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Indexing file names for a search engine

Great search mechanism!

What do you like best? A very easy configuration and implementation. Good support with both RDMS like Oracle and NoSQL like Mongo DB. Great way to support type ahead search and one field search in application/product. Very efficient. Support of multi-datasource at a time from one Solr component. Good Solr client APIs for Java developers. What do you dislike? Nothing much but a bit tricky handling for continuously updating data. Need to handle Security carefully by developer. ...

Great search mechanism!

What do you like best? A very easy configuration and implementation. Good support with both RDMS like Oracle and NoSQL like Mongo DB. Great way to support type ahead search and one field search in application/product. Very efficient. Support of multi-datasource at a time from one Solr component. Good Solr client APIs for Java developers. What do you dislike? Nothing much but a bit tricky handling for continuously updating data. Need to handle Security carefully by developer. ...

For your search engines!

What do you like best? Good user interface, very nice experience. Low learning curve. What do you dislike? It requires a good knowledge a Lucene fundamentals. Recommendations to others considering the product: I suggest to user Solr to easy implement a prototype of search engines with good web interface! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Information Retrieval, Search Engines prototype, Query suggestion Systems

For your search engines!

What do you like best? Good user interface, very nice experience. Low learning curve. What do you dislike? It requires a good knowledge a Lucene fundamentals. Recommendations to others considering the product: I suggest to user Solr to easy implement a prototype of search engines with good web interface! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Information Retrieval, Search Engines prototype, Query suggestion Systems

Great product for slicing and dicing larger data sets

What do you like best? The ability to quickly query data sets with various criteria. What do you dislike? The syntax at times can be arcane for end-users. Recommendations to others considering the product: Prepare yourself for the syntax and be sure to routinely check the logs for issues if running against Cassandra as there are many times in which they don't seem to play well together. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We ...