Comments on: Solr Faceting Revealed http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/11/30/solr-faceting-revealed/ by Stephen E. Arnold Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Otis Gospodnetic http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/11/30/solr-faceting-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-83228 Otis Gospodnetic Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:33:53 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=9609#comment-83228 I gave a talk about this very topic this morning along with Daniel Tunkelang: http://www.jroller.com/otis/entry/faceted_search_by_daniel_tunkelang You can imagine that the question of Lucene/Solr vs. came up. The show of hands for Lucene/Solr users was also more than interesting. :) I gave a talk about this very topic this morning along with Daniel Tunkelang:
http://www.jroller.com/otis/entry/faceted_search_by_daniel_tunkelang

You can imagine that the question of Lucene/Solr vs. came up. The show of hands for Lucene/Solr users was also more than interesting. :)

]]> By: David M. Fishman http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/11/30/solr-faceting-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-82217 David M. Fishman Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:19:23 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=9609#comment-82217 Steve, right on -- even the most self-confident IT teams can use a little help, even with Solr. But up and running in a week or two is by no means the exclusive province of commercial search solutions. With open source, you don't have to make an appointment with a consulting team to get started -- you need only to download the software, and for a little extra help, download our certified distributions -- www.lucidimagination.com/downloads. And, I don't think even the Marines don't mind a little self-promotion: helping IT teams succeed with Solr is just what we do at Lucid Imagination: our products and services can help you develop and deploy search solutions with confidence: professional training, SLA-based support subscriptions; best practices consulting; free certified distributions of Lucene and Solr; and value-add software. Steve, right on — even the most self-confident IT teams can use a little help, even with Solr. But up and running in a week or two is by no means the exclusive province of commercial search solutions. With open source, you don’t have to make an appointment with a consulting team to get started — you need only to download the software, and for a little extra help, download our certified distributions — http://www.lucidimagination.com/downloads.

And, I don’t think even the Marines don’t mind a little self-promotion: helping IT teams succeed with Solr is just what we do at Lucid Imagination: our products and services can help you develop and deploy search solutions with confidence: professional training, SLA-based support subscriptions; best practices consulting; free certified distributions of Lucene and Solr; and value-add software.

]]> By: A. Steven Anderson http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/11/30/solr-faceting-revealed/comment-page-1/#comment-82207 A. Steven Anderson Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:38:51 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=9609#comment-82207 With all due respect, an Apache Solr search engine based solution can be up and running in a matter of minutes or hours. Of course it's strictly a backend but you at least get a proven RESTful API (i.e. language and platform independent) with a robust faceted ad hoc query capability built on Apache Lucene. I've personally saved clients lots of annual maintenance $$$ replacing their expensive commercial search engines with Solr. Of course, YMMV. ;-) Steve With all due respect, an Apache Solr search engine based solution can be up and running in a matter of minutes or hours.

Of course it’s strictly a backend but you at least get a proven RESTful API (i.e. language and platform independent) with a robust faceted ad hoc query capability built on Apache Lucene.

I’ve personally saved clients lots of annual maintenance $$$ replacing their expensive commercial search engines with Solr.

Of course, YMMV. ;-)

Steve

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