Solr is basically best practices for lucene and encapsulates it in such a way that it is enterprise ready with load balancing and sharding to support horizontal scaling. Within the community many developers (myself included) have ended up building over and over again architectures that look much like Solr in order to support large scale Lucene usage. Solr is offers a much better starting off point for most nontrivial applications with search/indexing requirements.
Great wiki for further reading since I haven't begun to do it justice here http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ I'll mention that Solr also offers a great many value add pieces such as faceting and statistics packages for working with structured data within the index. These features are worth paying special attention to. Thanks, D On Jan 9, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Rick Bullotta wrote: > Can anyone "compare and contrast" lucene and solr for those of us who aren't > as familiar with solr? > > ------Original Message------ > From: Peter Neubauer > Sender: [email protected] > To: Neo user discussions > ReplyTo: Neo user discussions > Subject: [Neo] Solr integration for Neo4j in the making > Sent: Jan 9, 2010 6:28 AM > > Hi all, > Patrick O'Leary just contributed a basic integration component for > Solr and Neo4j. Thanks a lot Patrick for doing the effort and welcome > to the Neo4j community! > > This comonent lets Solr update a (right now social) graph in Neo4j > when documents with certain neo-IDs are inserted through the Solr HTTP > import facility. This is a bit different from the tight Lucene > integration where indexing is done through the Neo4j APIs. > > The component right now lives in > https://svn.neo4j.org/laboratory/components/solr and will undergo some > initial tweaking, mavenizazion, testing and package renaming before it > settles down. Anyway, feel free to check it out and > comment/feedback/contribute! > > Happy Hacking, > > /peter neubauer > > COO and Sales, Neo Technology > > GTalk: neubauer.peter > Skype peter.neubauer > Phone +46 704 106975 > LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer > Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer > > http://www.neo4j.org - Relationships count. > http://gremlin.tinkerpop.com - PageRank in 2 lines of code. > http://www.linkedprocess.org - Computing at LinkedData scale. > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > > > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
