Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread JohnRodey
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Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Travis Low
in are: Geospatial Search Highlighting Dynamic Fields Near Real-Time Indexing Multiple Search Indices Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Benefits-of-Solr-over-Lucene-tp4039964.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Walter Underwood
This is apples and pomegranates. Lucene is a library, Solr is a server. In features, they are more alike than different. wunder On Feb 12, 2013, at 7:40 AM, JohnRodey wrote: I know that Solr web-enables a Lucene index, but I'm trying to figure out what other things Solr offers over Lucene.

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Jack Krupansky
Here's yet another short list of benefits of Solr over Lucene (not that any of them take away from Lucene since Solr is based on Lucene): - Multiple core index - go beyond the limits of a single lucene index - Support for multi-core or named collections - richer query parsers (e.g., schema

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Amit Jha
wrote: Here's yet another short list of benefits of Solr over Lucene (not that any of them take away from Lucene since Solr is based on Lucene): - Multiple core index - go beyond the limits of a single lucene index - Support for multi-core or named collections - richer query parsers (e.g

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread JohnRodey
(or highlighting, or dynamic fields, or etc...). I am more curious about core index and search features, and not as much with sharding, cloud features, different client languages and so on. Any thoughts? thanks -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Benefits-of-Solr-over

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 2/12/2013 11:19 AM, JohnRodey wrote: So I have had a fair amount of experience using Solr. However on a separate project we are considering just using Lucene directly, which I have never done. I am trying to avoid finding out late that Lucene doesn't offer what we need and being like aw

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Glen Newton
Is there a page on the wiki that points out the use cases (or the features) that are best suited for Lucene adoption, and those best suited for SOLR adoption? -Glen On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Shawn Heisey s...@elyograg.org wrote: On 2/12/2013 11:19 AM, JohnRodey wrote: So I have had a

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Walter Underwood
It is like deciding between a disk drive and a file server. Solr and Lucene are different kinds of things. wunder On Feb 12, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Glen Newton wrote: Is there a page on the wiki that points out the use cases (or the features) that are best suited for Lucene adoption, and those

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Glen Newton
And helping people - who don't know much about them - how to decide which to use is not useful? -Glen On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org wrote: It is like deciding between a disk drive and a file server. Solr and Lucene are different kinds of things.

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Upayavira
Do you want to embed an index into your application, e.g. as a desktop app? Use Lucene. Is search basically the whole of your app? Perhaps use Lucene. Do you want you offer search as a service? Do you want to be able to arbitrarily scale your index (beyond the number of documents a single index

Re: Benefits of Solr over Lucene?

2013-02-12 Thread Lance Norskog
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