> Dave, I'm curious why you say GSA is easier to setup than Solr. Given that > you > > a) make a collection (one tag) > b) index it (one tag, although you need it a few places) > c) search it (one tag) > > The setup for Solr is relatively simple. Are you seeing differently with > your clients?
Yes, I am! Beyond rack-mounting the GSA and initial configuration, if you simply have web content all you have to do is give the GSA your home page URL, and ... that's it. You don't have to define index repositories (which is what a Solr collection is), you don't have to explicitly index items or schedule a time for them to be indexed - and those two items are where a lot of the complexity often ends up. You do still have to search, of course. The GSA will index your content all by itself. It will optimize the crawl schedule for that content, meaning that it won't unnecessarily reindex things that haven't changed.* You don't have to optimize or purge collections. And of course, in an enterprise environment, you may have multiple CF servers and applications, and you want to provide a single search experience across all of them. Do you set up a separate Solr server, or does each CF server have its own Solr instance? How do you manage content acquisition in that environment? Now, if all you have is your own web site and it's pretty small and your CF server isn't running at capacity already, the GSA might well be overkill for you, I'll give you that. But most organizations end up having a more complex search environment than they initially think. Each application or server often has its own repository, so you end up with Solr for CF, and FAST for SharePoint, etc, etc, etc. You have no easy way to federate searches across these repositories, compare relevance, etc. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354978 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
