Enjoy Large Benefits from Open Source Search Engine (Jim Cornell)
Nov 15, 2009
Higher order processing techniques like metadata generation, applying taxonomies, and doing relevance testing on a regular basis are efficiently carried out by enterprise search platforms like Apache Lucene.When users choose to work with a reliable platform like Lucene and Solr, they are free to plug-in the best tool for the job.
Open source search platforms Lucene and Solr are uniquely positioned to fuel intelligent searches. These platforms bring down the cost of experimentation because it less takes effort to implement them. These platforms take immediate charge of the user domains and provide efficient search results.
Lucene offers services such as support and training for user organizations. It is possible for users to build a search engine from scratch using Solr, the Lucene Open Source Search Engine. Also, open source platforms lets users to cost effectively fill in infrastructure and redirect resources for other core competencies.
It has been found that while using Lucene and Solr the enterprise direct costs are the only cost of experimentation. These platforms provide unique capabilities such as: 1. Research-oriented Question Answering system 2. Arabic-English cross language search system 3. Classifier features 4. Co-occurrence information for sentiment analysis. Lucene and Solr have allowed users to take untested ideas and work on them.
Solr, especially, makes it simple to plug-in these capabilities through its well defined plug-in architecture.It supports searches that goes beyond simple keyword capabilities-is, which has now become the leading edge of the field and is being adopted by Apache Lucene. Whether it is intelligent query parsing, better faceting and discovery capabilities or integration with natural language processing (NLP) tools for NER (Named Entity Recognition), sentiment analysis and relationship discovery, Lucene and Solr bring together a variety of approaches to solve the problem at hand.
Solr users are provided the benefits of using less hardware to achieve the same results such as throughput, less operations costs, faster indexing, faster queries, etc. Users must remember that these benefits require indexing functions that are only a mere fraction of the size of the proprietary solution.
About the AuthorIn short, using Lucene or using Solr provides a cost effective and fully capable mechanism for improving the efficiency of enterprise searches..