--- title: Apache Solr Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Solr Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 26 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Solr works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 26 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Apache Solr Reviews & Product Details Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication etc. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Solr Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-solr/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-solr/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Coveo](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Coveo") Coveo 4.3/5(142) ](https://www.g2.com/products/coveo/reviews) [ ![Algolia](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Algolia") Algolia 4.5/5(453) ](https://www.g2.com/products/algolia/reviews) [ ![Elasticsearch](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Elasticsearch") Elasticsearch 4.5/5(292) ](https://www.g2.com/products/elastic-elasticsearch/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-solr/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 26 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Luke H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Luke H.") LH Luke H. SEO - Digital Strategist and eCommerce Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/1/2024 "Internal Search Platforms" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? Solr is the more popular selection for the most part, so it's easy to train on and highly transferable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? Architure for real time solutions is lacking and new features trail the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? Internal product search and stock levels or availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/3/2025 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") UC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/12/2022 "Solr : Helpful for storing and indexing data" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? 1.For my case, I am using solr for getting search collection whether it's available or not. 2.We have different collection where we can store the particular data. But this data should be available in search collection. For this we are using Apache solr to check whether the given search collection returns a valid response or not. So if the search collection and return a data response, it will be available in front end. 3.Also solr helps to search the particular collection details innthe response 4.We can write query to get the particular data's details Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? Sometimes solr url won't be loaded. It might be for the maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: Helpful for the storing, indexing the data from different sources and make them searchable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? Solr helped me to get the search collection response for the provided collection id, where it stored the all the data. This helps me to check whether data available in solr or not. Because if the data is not available in solr, then abviously it won't be available in front end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/19/2020 "Average Software for Search Optimization" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? I had personally used Apache Solr in the enterprise web application development which is basically written in java. Besides that, the Apache Solr is also written in java. It is very easy to use and very easy to understand. The main features provided by the Apache Solr, for example, full-text search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document handling and, NoSQL features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? The Apache Solr is an average tool use for document indexing, which can be used for searching and data retrieval. But, I would like to suggest some areas of improvement needed in this tool, for example, solr tool is a bit complex. The naive user facing difficulties in understanding the basics of this tool and also hard to implement in other computer languages. support is very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: I recommend other please use elastic search. if you want faster deployment, ready to live with a lesser grain of control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? With the help of this tool, we can optimize are applications search engine by using search indexer techniques. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/3/2019 "Great document db+ search store" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? synonyms, infecing, delta query , document sharding plus the schema with regular expressions gives a fantastic edge for representing search data .clustering is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? not happy that there is no inbuilt javascript library or a datagrid that can interface with solr and search say around 10 million records. solr is for faster retrival, something on the lines of datatable js library would help.this grid shoukd be available as a plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: modern era inthe cloud have brilliant tools , solr may have to readjust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? search and document db. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/3/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite VG Vinay G. Technology Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/15/2019 "Great search mechanism!" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? A very easy configuration and implementation. Good support with both RDMS like Oracle and NoSQL like Mongo DB. Great way to support type ahead search and one field search in application/product. Very efficient. Support of multi-datasource at a time from one Solr component. Good Solr client APIs for Java developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? Nothing much but a bit tricky handling for continuously updating data. Need to handle Security carefully by developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: Try it - it's great for search mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? Used for one column search. Also for type ahead search to make good user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/2/2019 "Fast search index" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? Solr is extremely fast indexing tool that is easy to configure. It’s dev panel also allows for an ease of debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? I dislike the documentation around it. It is hard to follow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? Indexing file names for a search engine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Marshall M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Marshall M.") MM Marshall M. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/8/2016 "Powerful, flexible search engine" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? Solr is a very powerful, very flexible search engine. It is very fast and stable when configured correctly. Solr allows you to build your own custom request handlers and allows you to import data from pretty much any datasource. It is extendible, allowing you write your own plugins/importers to expand the built-in functionality. It's performance, scalability, and extendability make it a solid choice for powering real-time searches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? At least with version 4.3-4.10, the documentation for Solr was very lacking, and it is difficult to find help with things. There are a lot of features, particularly in your configurations, that can take a bit to understand and get setup correctly. There has been a lot of guesswork in figuring out some of these features, and it seems like there is a lot that could be better documented to help identify where certain things can be used. Dealing with Zookeeper can also be a hassle. Updating the configs through Zookeeper has not been the most straightforward thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: If you do not have a search service and are relying on direct database reads for your searches, I'd highly recommend looking into using Solr for your search platform. Solr provides a lot of different ways to parse your search input and ways of improving your consumers' search experience. Newer versions of Solr (5, 6) are greatly improved and easier to get going with, along with better documentation, and are highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? Solr provides nearly all of the search logic for our products. Our dataset is fairly large, and Solr handles this very effectively. There have been some unique challenges in setting it up to take advantage of all that Solr has to offer, but it provides a very good search engine that works for us and our users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Cataldo M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cataldo M.") CM Cataldo M. Assistant Professor (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato) Research Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/19/2016 "For your search engines!" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? Good user interface, very nice experience. Low learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? It requires a good knowledge a Lucene fundamentals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: I suggest to user Solr to easy implement a prototype of search engines with good web interface! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? Information Retrieval, Search Engines prototype, Query suggestion Systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Stewart H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Stewart H.") SH Stewart H. Principle Engineer Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2016 "Great product for slicing and dicing larger data sets" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? The ability to quickly query data sets with various criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? The syntax at times can be arcane for end-users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: Prepare yourself for the syntax and be sure to routinely check the logs for issues if running against Cassandra as there are many times in which they don't seem to play well together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using it in conjunction with Cassandra for doing various queries against our large datasets. It allows us to write queries on the dataset to inspect our data in various ways that is often hard to do in Cassandra alone. This has saved us time and thusly money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Timothy S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Timothy S.") TS Timothy S. Principal Developer Advocate Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/20/2016 "Solr search" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Solr? It works, it's fast and very stable. It's on top of Lucene which is pretty much the only open source solid search software available. SOLR is tied in with some hadoop distributions. It works and once you understand SOLR and LUCENE you are good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Solr? Between Solr and ElasticSearch, there is a constant struggle to pick the best one. ElasticSearch is part of ELK and ties in well with LogStash and Kibana which makes it great for logs and big data stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr: Try elastic search and solr. Add some logs and see which works best for your particular access methods and queries. They are very similar but elasticsearch is better for REST access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you? Searching log files for data. We were able to do so without buying an expensive license from Splunk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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