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I’m looking to find alternatives to Solr from the Apache Software Foundation.
For those that don’t know, Solr is an enterprise search server. A client application uses a web-services like interface to submit documents for indexing and also to perform search queries. Solr has other features built in like caching and replication. I believe it was originally started by CNet and then open-sourced.
I’m looking for other search servers out there that might be seen as the competition.
I wrote a long post about my experiences and features of all the engines I listed below but I scrapped it because formatting is a pita. But quite simply if you don’t want to shell out money Solr/Lucene or Fast (now MSSE) is really about the best you can do.
Excluded because I have no experience of this product: Seamark,
Price High to Low
Speed Fast to Slow
Features High to Low
Extensibility High to Low
Java API
.NET API
XML API
Faceted Search
Natural Language Search
Document Crawling
ITL
Merchandizing/Content Spotlighting
Distributed Search
Analytics
Platform x86 Windows
Platform x64 Windows
Platform x86 Unix Variants
Platform x64 Unix Variants
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