SiLK Package from LucidWorks Bundles Functionalities
April 7, 2014
We had heard that LucidWorks was trying to partner with the analysis firm Splunk. Now, though, PCWorld tells us that “LucidWorks Preps Solr Stack as Splunk Killer.” The new package, dubbed SiLK, is based on the Apache Solr search engine and incorporates open source analysis tools Apache Flume, LogStash, and Kibana. It is worth noting that, according to the company, LucidWorks employees make up a quarter of the open-source Solr’s core committers. Even so, this project seems to cry, “me too, me too!”
What was that about killing Splunk? Reporter Joab Jackson writes:
“LucidWorks says that using Lucene instead of Elasticsearch will allow an organization to aggregate and search across more data, Hayes said. SiLK is aimed at organizations that have anywhere from hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes of data to ingest daily.
“According to Hayes, SiLK can also provide some scalability advantages over the commercial market leader of log-data analysis, Splunk. Splunk charges, at least in part, based on how much data is being analyzed, which can add up when dealing with extremely large amounts of data.”
Available to subscribers of LucidWorks‘ Lucene services, SiLK also works with Apache Hadoop. LucidWorks is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and was founded in 2007 as Lucid Imagination. The company’s stated goal is to make open source search accessible and easy to learn.
Cynthia Murrell, April 07, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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