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What is Apache Solr?

Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication etc.

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Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication etc.


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Luke H.
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Luke H.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Internal Search Platforms"
Solr is the more popular selection for the most part, so it's easy to train on and highly transferable.
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3.5 out of 5
"Great document db+ search store"
synonyms, infecing, delta query , document sharding plus the schema with regular expressions gives a fantastic edge for representing search data .c...
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2.5 out of 5
"Apache Solr: search engine"
It's free. No license, big community can help you
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Luke H.
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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

Solr is the more popular selection for the most part, so it's easy to train on and highly transferable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

Architure for real time solutions is lacking and new features trail the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

Internal product search and stock levels or availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

1.For my case, I am using solr for getting search collection whether it's available or not.

2.We have different collection where we can store the particular data. But this data should be available in search collection. For this we are using Apache solr to check whether the given search collection returns a valid response or not. So if the search collection and return a data response, it will be available in front end.

3.Also solr helps to search the particular collection details innthe response

4.We can write query to get the particular data's details Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

Sometimes solr url won't be loaded. It might be for the maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

Helpful for the storing, indexing the data from different sources and make them searchable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solr helped me to get the search collection response for the provided collection id, where it stored the all the data. This helps me to check whether data available in solr or not. Because if the data is not available in solr, then abviously it won't be available in front end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

It's free. No license, big community can help you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

it needs bigger documentation and more examples of how to configure and to use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used apache solr to retrieve products on an eCommerce platform. It is a big benefit to have a fast responsive product search page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mallayasamy K.
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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

It helps to show the product on the site. the one of the best search engine tools and it helps to search the product on the home page. Able to see the list of collection properties in the dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

Mapped IP's are showed in red colour but while clicking the IP we cant able find out the root cause of the issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

its good for business aspects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

searched and other products are showed quickly. there is no slowness to display the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahesh Singh Y.
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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

It is very easy to integrate with API, Csv Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

Viability and availability to the mass is required Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

Complex data into into more structured way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohit N.
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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

Ease of using and setup. We can get up and running in 1-2 days for a simple use case. Building on that is simple and straightforward.

Good admin UI to watch the system metrics and delta indexing process which runs at a preset interval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

There is nothing specific that I don't like about Solr. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

1. Quick learning curve

2. Easy to code on the client-side.

3. Easy to set up and can be up and running in 1-2 days for simple use cases.

4. Its open source and free to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

Large set user activities data feeds. We index this data in Solr and show them on the activities page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

I had personally used Apache Solr in the enterprise web application development which is basically written in java. Besides that, the Apache Solr is also written in java. It is very easy to use and very easy to understand. The main features provided by the Apache Solr, for example, full-text search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document handling and, NoSQL features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

The Apache Solr is an average tool use for document indexing, which can be used for searching and data retrieval. But, I would like to suggest some areas of improvement needed in this tool, for example, solr tool is a bit complex. The naive user facing difficulties in understanding the basics of this tool and also hard to implement in other computer languages. support is very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

I recommend other please use elastic search. if you want faster deployment, ready to live with a lesser grain of control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the help of this tool, we can optimize are applications search engine by using search indexer techniques. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

synonyms, infecing, delta query , document sharding plus the schema with regular expressions gives a fantastic edge for representing search data .clustering is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

not happy that there is no inbuilt javascript library or a datagrid that can interface with solr and search say around 10 million records. solr is for faster retrival, something on the lines of datatable js library would help.this grid shoukd be available as a plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

modern era inthe cloud have brilliant tools , solr may have to readjust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

search and document db. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

Nothing much but a bit tricky handling for continuously updating data. Need to handle Security carefully by developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

Try it - it's great for search mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used for one column search. Also for type ahead search to make good user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Apache Solr?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

It would be good to handle authentication natively in an enterprise scale. Currently it has to be wrapped by another service that does authentication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

It is used whenever high and large data volume needs to be filtered and classified for search and filtering.Hence this is very poweful tool to be used . Alternative tools like elastic search can also be used and utilised in multiple search engine across the organisation whenever there is need to search on large volume of data. Hence it becomes essential to deploy , handy , quick and light weight tool . I would recommend this tool for all the organisation which is looking for easy search engine on high volume of data. This is big deal when performance is critical for frontend application across any organisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

it is powerful search engine to serve large data of information which is best used when quick search results are requested by the frontend system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.