Solr: The Prestigious Bossie Winner

September 30, 2016

Beyond Search learned that open source search and retrieval solution Solr won a Bossie Award. The outfit involved in the awards said that Solr was a trusted and mature search engine technology.” Big outfits using Solr include Zappos, Comcast, and DuckDuckGo.

Also bringing home an award was Lucene. The description of Elasticsearch pointed out:

As part of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, all developed by Elasticsearch’s creators, Elastic), Elasticsearch has found its killer app as an open source Splunk replacement for log analysis.

Users of Lucene include Microsoft and LinkedIn. (What’s the problem with SharePoint Search? What prevents Microsoft from using Fast Search & Transfer technology in lieu of open source search?)

Why are Solr and Lucene the go to search utilities? Free? Actual bug fixes and not excuses? No licensing leg shackles? Did I mention free?

Stephen E Arnold, September 30, 2016

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One Response to “Solr: The Prestigious Bossie Winner”

  1. Antone Girgis on October 3rd, 2016 3:06 am

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I really appreciate your efforts and I will be waiting for your next post thanks once again.|

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