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Apache Solr is a web application built around Lucene with all kinds of goodies. Unlike Lucene, Solr is a web application (WAR) which can be deployed in any servlet container, e.g. Jetty, Tomcat, Resin, etc. Solr can be installed and used by non-programmers. Lucene cannot.
- Why you should use SOLR over Lucene?
- Is SOLR based on Lucene?
- Should I use SOLR or Elasticsearch?
- Is Lucene still relevant?
- Does Google use SOLR?
- Why do we use SOLR?
- Which companies use Apache SOLR?
- Is SOLR a NoSQL database?
- Why is Lucene so fast?
- Is Elasticsearch faster than SOLR?
- Why SOLR is fast?
- Is Apache SOLR good?
Why you should use SOLR over Lucene?
Using Solr or Lucene
- When you need to index large numbers of items (50,000 and up), Solr performs better.
- Solr is more robust. If your site depends on search as the primary interface, we recommend using Solr.
Is SOLR based on Lucene?
About Apache Solr
Apache Solr is an open-source search server built on top of Lucene that provides all of Lucene's search capabilities through HTTP requests.
Should I use SOLR or Elasticsearch?
Solr has more advantages when it comes to the static data, because of its caches and the ability to use an uninverted reader for faceting and sorting – for example, e-commerce. On the other hand, Elasticsearch is better suited – and much more frequently used – for timeseries data use cases, like log analysis use cases.
Is Lucene still relevant?
Apache Lucene, the full-text search library, has operated and been maintained for more than 20 years and for many developers is an integral part of their website and application builds.
Does Google use SOLR?
So, it's not accurate to say that "Google chose Solr," but it is accurate to suggest that All for Good was founded by Googlers in their "20-percent time" and continues to be hosted by Google, as TechCrunch has reported, and that those Googlers, along with the rest of the board, opted for Solr over Google.
Why do we use SOLR?
Solr provides advanced near real-time searching capabilities such as fielded search, Boolean queries, phrase queries, fuzzy queries, spell check, wildcards, joins, grouping, auto-complete and many more across different types of data.
Which companies use Apache SOLR?
Related Articles
| AOL is using Solr to power its channels. www.aol.com | Apple is using Solr. www.apple.com |
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| Stubhub an eBay company, uses Solr for Browsing and Searching tickets. www.stubhub.com | Guardian News uses Solr to power it's Open Platform. www.guardiannews.com |
Is SOLR a NoSQL database?
Solr is a search engine at heart, but it is much more than that. It is a NoSQL database with transactional support. It is a document database that offers SQL support and executes it in a distributed manner.
Why is Lucene so fast?
Lucene is very fast at searching for data because of its inverted index technique. Normally, datasources structure the data as an object or record, which in turn have fields and values. A search is done from top to bottom i.e it searches for objects having fields with matching values and returns those objects.
Is Elasticsearch faster than SOLR?
When it came to querying for documents, Solr had five times more throughput and was five times faster than ElasticSearch. Since the long history of Apache Solr, I think one strength of the Solr is its ecosystem. There are many Solr plugins for different types of data and purposes.
Why SOLR is fast?
A Lucene (the underlying library used by Solr) index is made of a read-only segments. ... This allows Lucene to run range queries very efficiently. Since your use-case seems to leverage numeric range queries a lot, this may explain why Solr is so much faster.
Is Apache SOLR good?
"Apache Solr has flexible Query for API and powerful engine"
it is very easy and simple to access its data via REST API. The flexibility in adjusting the query in terms of boosting, faceting and more is very useful.
