The Guardian Goes Solr
May 12, 2010
A reader sent me two links. One to a consulting firm, Red Monk, and the other to Lucid Imagination’s blog. The idea I took away is that the reader wanted me to acknowledge the diffusion of open source search systems (Lucene and Solr) in the enterprise. I also figured out that the UK newspaper was moving in some directions that in certain publishing circles were a sharp departure from the IBM- and Microsoft-inflected norm. Matthew Wall and Simon Wilson of The Guardian say Solr offers powerful features much like a database: can perform complex queries including full text search, offers scalability to millions of documents, scale well horizontally, can filter results with facets, etc. Matthew is quoted as saying: “Apache Solr is like a database, it works like one for us”. Solr is often being used as a database surrogate: e-commerce, log management for transaction tracking; embedded in business intelligence and analytics applications, gathering and monitoring social media like Twitter and blogs. I have been asked to work on the program committee of a conference that will dissect open source search and content processing technologies. I may just accept. This open source technology seems to be gaining momentum.
Stephen E Arnold, May 11, 2010
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