I don't have a lot of experience with reporting
tools and how data is stored by high priced tools which use OLAP and other
similar storage types but we needed a solution for drill down reports and
searching within large application logs / web server logs.
So, we decided to build a reporting / analytics solution using Lucene. The
product is almost ready and we are doing closed beta testing for now for
reporting & searching in Web Server logs with our small set of beta customers.
I am not here to promote the product or drop the URL, but wanted to get an
opinion from this group on using Lucene as the data store for Business
Intelligence / Analytics.
If implemented correctly, is there any reason why a Lucene based data store
cannot compete with the high priced reporting / data analytics products for
drill down reports? I know about a lot of Lucene advantages which I can talk
about with customers, but what can be the downside of using Lucene /
competitive advantages in other products which we should be aware of?
Thanks
Saurabh Dani
