Use Lucene/Solr for Fast & Efficient Searches (Sarah Adams)
Dec 16, 2009
Legacy commercial search applications can only add to hidden costs and constraints, thereby making it cumbersome for organizations to innovate and adapt. Today, since organizations are becoming global in their operations they require strong control over their enterprise searches. This can help to acceleration in scale and diversity of their data and documents.
In order to cover up all the disadvantages enterprise users are now looking up to Apache Lucene or Solr open source search engines. These tools are highly useful to gain competitive advantage by building enterprise search applications that deliver high speed, highly versatile, and relevant enterprise search results.
The open source Apache Solr search engine is able to provide powerful, versatile search application development technology so that enterprises can take full control of their enterprise search needs. Solr has rich interfaces and convenient server packaging of the underlying Apache Lucene search libraries into web service interfaces, and with limitless customizability, it lets users take control of their own searches.
Solr has great functions available for use to boost relevance based on the content of a field. Solr is basically the right tool for enterprises that specialize in e-commerce to content management. Solr is probably the best tool to turn ever growing volume and variety of data and documents to the advantage of enterprise business.
We all that it is important for enterprises to find the right information at the right time to be able to create a winning investment strategy with their enterprise searches. Most recently a multimedia financial-services company, The Motley Fool, worked with Lucene solution providers to easily and successfully migrate from a closed commercial solution to the versatile and powerful Apache Lucene and Solr open source search.
This particular financial service was able to completely take control of their search technology and migrated to Lucene/Solr open source search - which has now dramatically improved search relevancy, speed, versatility and costs.
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