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Verified User in Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/16/2016

"A fairly solid search platform built on Lucene."

3/5

What do you like best about Apache Solr?

Solr is built on top of Apache Lucene, which is a trusted search indexing platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

Managing the Solr instances was proving to be a pain, which is why we made the switch to ElasticSearch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ameya K.

Principal Programmer/Analyst (Big-Data)

Consumer Electronics

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/8/2016

"Easy of indexing the data"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Solr?

REST API for accessing and validating the data/records Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

new version release need to retesting existing code to make sure nothing breaks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Restaurants

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/30/2016

"A Simple, Yet Capable Search Platform"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Solr?

Solr is a fairly straight forward product, that does what ti's supposed to with minimal maintenance. The platform is easily administrated via web portal, and allows for thorough awareness and assessment of the platform itself at any time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

We are on an older version of Solr, so most of my dislikes around the clunkiness of the UI has been fixed in newer versions as far as I can tell. Overall the product is very usable though,and it is hard to find a distinct dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

Move to the newest version if at all possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are utilizing Solr with our Google Search Appliances for the search functionality within out internal company portal. Solr helps us query other databases for personnel and location information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Manjunath R.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/10/2016

"Amazing search engine with great search capabilities"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Solr?

Learning experience

Easy to use

Precise documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

Do not have automatic auto scaling (Clustering, nodes and sharding) similar to Elasticsearch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Wayne L.

Database Architect

Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/11/2015

"Real time complex search with SOLR"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Solr?

* Powerful real time search capability. SOLR can do partial matching search, phonetic search, synonym search and return the result instantly.

* Distributed architecture for scalability and availability.

* Open source with low cost of ownership Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

* CPU consumption can be high in some cases.

* No built-in monitoring and alerting function for production system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Solr:

If you need real time search of word or partial word, word synonyms, SOLR is for you. It is relatively easy to setup once you passed the not so great documentation and it is cost effective. The performance is good and very scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Solr solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use SOLR for two difficult business challenges:

* Type ahead search. The application needs to build a short list of match words based on users input as they typing into a search field. The search field is unified search field, that means multiple data types to be searched. For example, the field can be built for search a person. As an user typing, front end client sends the partial input to SOLR to search person's first name, last name, phonetic and spelling variation of the names, social security number, bank account number, application IDs and so on. If an user typing first two letters of name "Mike" The search needs to return a list of matching words before user typing the third letter "k". The match word can be Mike, Micheal, McMillan or a system ID of MI12345.

* Record reconciliation. The application has data feeds from various data source and data needs to be annotated and cross reference to each other. One example is using SOLR to build a ranking system to identify the like-hood of two persons from two data sources are the same person in real world, based on social security number, name, gender, birthday, address, credit card number and so on. The data source may contain one or more above attributes for person identification.

SOLR enable us to build customizable search function quickly that perform and scale well. We had extensive research on other technologies, such as database text indexing and google search but found SOLR is the best match for our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Bharadwaj (Brad) C.

Director Of Engineering/Head of Reliability Engineering

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/17/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Real Time Search with SOLR"

5/5

What do you like best about Apache Solr?

Powerful real time search capability with Type-ahead search. SOLR can do partial matching search, phonetic search, synonym search and return the result instantly. Faceting is one feature that can add immense value to any ecommerce application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Solr?

No built-in monitoring and alerting function for production system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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