Hi Nik: Thanks for sharing your experience and opinion on the topic. Could you please give me some advice on a bigger picture, such as the distributed model, read-time indexing, search performance and so on. Thanks so much.
On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 11:17:18 PM UTC+8, Nikolas Everett wrote: > > About six months ago I spent a week porting a prototype from Solr Cloud to > Elasticsearch with the intent of evaluating Elasticsearch and either > throwing out the port or building off of it. By the third day or so I was > convinced I'd stick with Elasticsearch because: > 1. I was impressed with > http://www.elasticsearch.org/contributing-to-elasticsearch/. > 2. The documentation is better. > 3. I liked the query DSL better than solr's. > 4. There is some http GET that you can hit in solr that will delete the > index (or a shard or something). That shook my faith in humanity a little. > Especially when I pasted it into IRC and my coworker clicked it or mouse > overed it or something.... Gets. Idempotent. > 5. I liked the phrase suggester. > 6. My ops team seemed like it better. > 7. There was (and still is) a deb package. > 8. I liked the way Elasticsearch was tested. I admit I haven't actually > looked into how Solr is tested. > > Since then: > 1. I've enjoyed the process of landing changes in Elasticsearch much more > then Lucene. I assume Solr would be the same because it is in the same > repository as Lucene, The github process (pull request, etc) is better > than JIRA/svn/patch files. I also think the Elasticsearch > committers/repository collaborators are easier to work with then the Lucene > folks. > 2. The phrase suggester needed some work to be as good as our > (surprisingly advanced) home grown suggester. It is now that good. > 3. Elasticsearch has really improved the process of maintaining their > documentation so I imagine it'll only get better. > 4. It seems to be working. We're using 0.90.7 at this point (see > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Version) to power the search on a > couple hundred wikis without any trouble. Try it: > https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?search=alias&title=Special%3ASearch > > Nik > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:45 AM, David Pilato <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I would say: play with both for some hours. >> I really think you will get some answers by yourself! >> >> I don't want to say more than this as I have probably a biased opinion ;-) >> >> -- >> *David Pilato* | *Technical Advocate* | *Elasticsearch.com* >> @dadoonet <https://twitter.com/dadoonet> | >> @elasticsearchfr<https://twitter.com/elasticsearchfr> >> >> >> Le 24 décembre 2013 at 15:16:59, Daniel Guo >> ([email protected]<javascript:>) >> a écrit: >> >> I never used Apache Solr before, and I'm trying ElasticSearch in my >> project. >> The document of ES is a little scarce, but I have to explain to my >> supervisor why I chose ES over Solr. >> >> As far as I know, Solr (with Solr Cloud) also supports distributed >> indexing, near real-time update and searching, and automatic load >> balancing, >> which are the main features of ElasticSearch. >> >> What are the advantages of ES comparing to Apache Solr? Could anybody >> give me a tip, or some information links? >> Thanks a lot. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/44aa3f8d-59cb-4500-9b81-694718019057%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/etPan.52b99df5.238e1f29.45b0%40MacBook-Air-de-David.local >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/444449c6-73cf-43f3-8815-720e55ada45c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
