Re: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Geoff, Perhaps you can find out the list of features/functionalities that your project requires and we can give you quick yes/no. Or perhaps you can get those others to list those Autonomy features that they think they really need, and we can tell you how Solr compares. Otis -- Sematext --

Re: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Geoff Hopson
As per other thread 1) security down to field level Otherwise I am mostly happy that Solr gives me everything that Autonomy does. 2008/9/18 Otis Gospodnetic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Geoff, Perhaps you can find out the list of features/functionalities that your project requires and we can give

Re: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Walter Underwood
It depends entirely on the needs of the project. For some things, Solr is superior to Autonomy, for other things, not. I used to work at Autonomy (and Verity and Inktomi and Infoseek), and I chose Solr for Netflix. It is working great for us. wunder == Walter Underwood Former Ultraseek Architect

Re: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Geoff Hopson
My project is looking to index 10s of millions of documents, providing search across a live-live environment (hence index distribution/replication is important). Most searches have to be done (ie to end user) in 5 seconds or less. The index has about 30 fields, and I reckon that the security

Re: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Ryan McKinley
On Sep 18, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Geoff Hopson wrote: As per other thread 1) security down to field level how complex of a security model do you need? Is each users field visibility totally distinct? are there a few basic groups? If you are willing to write (or hire someone to write) a

Re: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Walter Underwood
I would do the field visibility one layer up from the search engine. That layer already knows about the user and can request the appropriate fields. Or request them all (better HTTP caching) and only show the appropriate ones. As I understand your application, putting access control in Solr

RE: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Kashyap, Raghu
Hi Geoff, I cannot vouch for Autonomy however, earlier this year we did evaluate Endeca Solr and we went with Solr some of the reasons were: 1. Freedom of open source with Solr 2. Very good active solr open source community 3. Features pretty much overlap with both solr Endeca 4. Endeca

Re: Solr vs Autonomy

2008-09-18 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
: Geoff Hopson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:43:58 AM Subject: Re: Solr vs Autonomy My project is looking to index 10s of millions of documents, providing search across a live-live environment (hence index distribution/replication