Lucene SOLR Challenger in Enterprise Search
January 27, 2009
I received an email about Marc Krellenstein’s leaving a big dead tree publishing outfit and joining Lucid Imagination. Mr. Krellenstein came on my radar when he worked on the search system used by Northern Light. I lost track of him until he appeared at a conference under the aegis of a dead tree publishing company. His presentation, as I recall, was a highly useful, deeply informed discussion of the Lucene open source search system. With the information that he was joining the stealth outfit Lucid Imagination here, I figured that his enterprise and Lucene background would play a major role. ZDNet’s Paula Rooney’s “Lucid Aims to Be Top Open Source Enterprise Search Player” confirmed my suspicions. You can read her story here. She reveals that the licensing fee for the open source system will be positioned as a subscription. Unlike some of the brand name solutions, the annual subscription “will range from $12,000 to $18,000 per year.” If you check out the pricing of Google Search Appliance solution, Lucid Imagination becomes a bargain. Compared to some of the brand name vendors, the subscription fee is one-fifth the starting price of commercial systems. You can get open source search systems from other companies. I have written about Tesuji and Lemur Flax. Both warrant a look if you are interested in open source search systems with support and consulting to smooth life’s little wrinkles in information access. As the economy worsens, lower cost search solutions may warrant a closer look.
Stephen Arnold, January 27, 2009
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Don’t forget Sematext. It’s been working in Lucene/Solr/Nutch space for several years now.
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