A Spin with Solr: Take Your Human Resources Too
July 3, 2011
Recently, I spent some time perusing an online slideshow presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/paramsethi1/solr-8459048 of Solr, an open source enterprise search platform from Apache Lucene . The information is through and the platform has some solid, intriguing features.
One of the highlights of Solr is that it uses the Lucene for full-text search. It also has hit highlighting, faceted search, clustering, database integration, rich document handling and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world’s largest internet sites.
Solr may not be Exalead CloudView, www.google.com, but a number of companies and government entities use it to handle their searches. This fairly notable list includes WhiteHouse.gov, Netflix , StubHub, and other high profile outfits. (see “Top Five Public Sites The Use Solr”. )
Solr impressed me. It is described as “lightning fast” and has some very practical capabilities. After seeing everything they has to offer, I’d have to say Solr is worth a look. Like other open source enterprise solutions, I think you will want to have some open source wizards on staff or on contract. In today’s job market, a lack of human resources can give the enterprise a painful case of sunburn.
Jennifer Wensink, July 3, 2011
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