DC-X Goes with Lucene and Solr
August 13, 2010
Digital Collections’ newest DC-X product is saying “bye-bye!” to Oracle Text and “well, hello there…” to Lucene and Solr. This is Digital Collections first venture away from Oracle Text.
In a this useful write up, Digital Collections explained that Oracle Text’s limitations were starting to catch up with them. Among the Oracle Text drawbacks are unstable query performance, difficulty to scale, and inadequate support.
Digital Collections searched for alternatives, but were hard pressed to find a better option. Finally they heard about Lucene and Solr through the proverbial grapevine and gave them a try. They were thoroughly impressed and have decided to give it a go with their new DC-X product.
Oracle is still being used to hold much of the data—just not for the search engine. It’s not in production use yet, so it will be interesting to see if any bugs pop up that need fixing. Anyway, add this to your migration reference material.
Stephen E Arnold, August 12, 2010
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