Lucid Works Simplifies Lucene Installation

October 25, 2011

We have it on good authority from a Lucene/Solr expert in Europe, “Downloading and installing Lucene/Solr in an enterprise can be a daunting task.”

A new trend is being set in the form of open source search: waves of applications are being released as flexible and cost effective alternatives to content and data xsearch.

One such company is claiming to be the most advanced open source platform, citing “worldwide” users and a “dramatic ease of use.” Lucid Works 2.0 is a search platform built on Lucene/Solr open source search via enterprise-grade subscriptions.

The Wall Street Journal published a press release, “Application Developers Worldwide Endorse LucidWorks 2.0 Open Source Search Platform for Creating Enterprise-Grade Search-Enabled Applications,” which tells us more:

The LucidWorks 2.0 platform delivers full open source Apache Lucene/Solr community innovation in an enterprise-ready package, with support from the world’s leading experts in open source search. An extensible platform architected for developers, it is the only Solr distribution that provides security and pre-built connectors for essential enterprise data sources, along with dramatic ease of use advantages in a well-tested, integrated and documented package.

This strikes me as baloney. The press release cites four company endorsements (DdadIT, SHI, Springsense, and Uchida Spectrum) and these four are the only sources quoted as recommendations for the platform. These are the world’s “leading experts” in open source search? Maybe four is “revolution”? We’re flexible.

Andrea Hayden October 25, 2011

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.