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. > > 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 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 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 snap, it doesn't support geospatial" (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. >>> >>> >>> Because Solr is written using the Lucene API, if you want to use Lucene, you >>> can do anything Solr can, plus plenty of things that Solr can't -- but for >>> many of those, you'd have to write the code yourself. That's the key >>> difference -- with Solr, a HUGE amount of coding is already done for you, >>> you just have to put a few easy-to-debug client API calls in your code. >>> >>> From my perspective as a user with some Java coding ability but not any true >>> experience with large-scale development: If your development team is ready >>> and capable of writing Lucene code, then it would be better to use Solr >>> instead, and if there's something you need that Solr can't do, put your >>> development team to work writing the required plugin. They would likely >>> spend far less time doing that than writing an entire search system using >>> Lucene. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Shawn >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> - >> http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/ >> - > > -- > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > > > -- - http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/ -
