Apache Solr Reviews & Product Details

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.

I dislike the documentation around it. It is hard to follow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solr is designed from th groud up for scalability. If you are launching a search product and expect demand to grow this is an excellent option. The support community is also excellent. One of the best Open Source projects out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For some tasks working with Solr requries customization beyond what is needed with commercial products. Solr lacks some data filters that commercial rpoducts offer. Entity extraction is basic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solr strength is the fact that it can quickly search through billions (yes with a B) or records to ptu the right data in front of a user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much to dislike about solr. sometimes solr cloud acts up and does not fail over correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

Speed, very fast and easy to use and has configurations when you want to dive deeper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Indexing and text based admin system, but mostly writing this because I have to find dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Solr is a very quick and easy way to search for keywords within a document, the ability to add weightings to search terms to increase the outcome of search relevance gives it great flexibility.

It has a great user interface to be able to search your data and create your search query, as well as check the status of the server and cache.

It was easy to hook this search into our code base, using the search url Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way you index the data to Solr could be improved, it has a document feeder built in but isn't the easiest to use and is recommended to not be used in a production environment, although we have done this in the past. Which means a separate application needs to be written to insert your data.

Creating a SOLR cloud isn't as straight forward as it could be, as it needs to use Zookeeper, which means an additional server/service to maintain, other similar search products do not require this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The customisability of the solr is so good that anyone can set it up and customise it for his/her needs

Aslo the documentation provided is too good

The inbuilt filters are more than sufficient for any of your needs and also you can customise them as per your need there are various features of solr that are helping us in our buisnesss Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have had many issues with multi word synonyms

it simply doesn't work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good user interface, very nice experience. Low learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It requires a good knowledge a Lucene fundamentals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to quickly query data sets with various criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The syntax at times can be arcane for end-users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.