Apache Solr came up in a discussion today, it seems it has the unique ability of being known to be the best out there, yet I still heard some people complain, especially when used in conjunction with 3rd party apps like RoR apps.
Can anyone disprove this? Better but less known options than Apache Solr for searching/indexing? Or at least something faster than Lucene.
Thank you.
Maybe have a look at CLucene – Lucene ported to C++.