In the world of search, there are often a few burning questions when it comes to considering the right technology for your organization. One that we hear a lot is: Should we use Solr or Elasticsearch?

That is the common question I hear: Which one is better, Solr or Elasticsearch? Which one is faster? Which one scales better? Which one can do X, and Y, and Z? Which one is easier to manage? Which one ...

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Google built its web empire on commodity hardware. Rather than invest in powerful, expensive supercomputers, it harnessed the collective power of tens of thousands of ordinary servers, cutting costs ...

Elasticsearch, the open source project for developers to slice and dice their data, has pulled in $10 million. Since launching in 2009, Amsterdam-based Elasticsearch has become one the most popular ...

Apache Solr, also known as Solr, is an open source enterprise search engine. Prominent features include full text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, ...

Rocana’s dynamic sharding model takes ingest and search of IT operations data to petabyte scale, while maintaining low-latency queries Every company wants to guarantee uptime and positive experiences ...

Enterprise search software provider LucidWorks has introduced a package based on its open-source Apache Solr search engine that will allow administrators and business analysts to extract more ...

Sphinx ranks fifth on our list of the most powerful alternatives to Elasticsearch. Sphinx is a full text search engine with text search functionality. The open source text search server offers vector ...