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Apache Solr Reviews & Insights

Score8.9 out of 10

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TrustRadius Insights for Apache Solr are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Fast Performance: Many reviewers have praised the platform for its fast performance. They have found it impressive and appreciated the ability to rapidly grow their environments to meet expanding business needs.

Flexibility of Solr: Users have mentioned that Solr is highly flexible and can be customized to meet specific business needs. They have been able to make Solr bend to their requirements, which they found advantageous.

Useful Functionality: Reviewers have emphasized the usefulness of Solr's faceted navigation and field collapsing/grouping functionalities. These features allow them to filter and obtain quick results for their websites, resulting in good and efficient outcomes for their customers.

Apache Solr Reviews

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Small Businesses (1-50 employees)

Apache Solr is a Win With Drupal

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Solr as an indexing mechanism for complex product data and user profiles. It allows us to rapidly deliver search results with minimum strain on our hardware configurations.

We're currently implementing Solr in a Drupal powered e-commerce environment and enjoying amazing success with the open source integration.

Pros

  • Speed -- This is a very fast platform.
  • Scalability -- We can rapidly grow our environments to meet expanding business needs.
  • Flexibility -- We can make Solr bend to our business needs and not the other way around.

Cons

  • Ease of use -- this is not always the easier platform to configure.
  • Developer Community -- There are not a whole lot of folks out there that understand this stuff so finding talent is difficult.
  • Drupal 8 -- We've been frustrated with slow development on APIs for Drupal 8 integration.

Likelihood to Recommend

Solr spins up nicely and works effectively for small enterprise environments providing helpful mechanisms for fuzzy searches and facetted searching.

For larger enterprises with complex business solutions you'll find the need to hire an expert Solr engineer to optimize the powerful platform to your needs.

Internationalization is tricky with Solr and many hosting solutions may limit you to a latin character set.
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Peter Feddo
Senior Front End Developer in Engineering at GSATi (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
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