Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-20 Thread Lance Norskog
The Linux file systems are generally at least twice as fast as the Windows NTFS file system. Solr installations are mostly disk-limited so this will have a major effect. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:53 PM, wojtekpia wrote: > > While Solr is functionally platform independent, I have seen much better

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-19 Thread Mohamed Parvez
gt; > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Sent: Sun, January 17, 2010 1:35:17 PM > > Subject: Re: Google Commerce Search > > > > I was in your same shoes as yours. And did recommend and implement Solr > to > > my Fortune 10 client. Solr is a great solution and do

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-19 Thread wojtekpia
While Solr is functionally platform independent, I have seen much better performance on Linux than Windows under high load (related to SOLR-465). MitchK wrote: > > As you know, Solr is fully written in Java and Java is still > plattform-independent. ;) > Learn more about Solr on http://www.luc

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-19 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
apache.org > Sent: Sun, January 17, 2010 1:35:17 PM > Subject: Re: Google Commerce Search > > I was in your same shoes as yours. And did recommend and implement Solr to > my Fortune 10 client. Solr is a great solution and does meet most of the > requirements and lacks very few thi

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread mrbelvedr
Thanks for your frank analysis. William Pierce-3 wrote: > > I have used solr extensively for our sites (and for the clients I work > with). I think it is great! If you do an item-by-item feature list > comparison, I think you will find that solr stacks up quite well. And > the > price, o

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread Lukáš Vlček
BTW: If you are looking for somebody to help you with Solr then you can check the following wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Support Rgds, Lukas On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Pradeep Pujari wrote: > Yes, all the points you mentioned can be easily done in Solr. > > Pradeep > > On Sun, Ja

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread Pradeep Pujari
Yes, all the points you mentioned can be easily done in Solr. Pradeep On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:30 AM, mrbelvedr wrote: > > Our customer is a Fortune 5 big time company. They have millions of > vendors/products they work with daily. They have budget for whatever we > recommend but we like to us

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread MitchK
Bill, are you comparing percentage-rates or total numbers? Keep in mind that Google own a big part of the traffic-cake. Kind regards Mitch William Pierce-3 wrote: > > Let me give you an example from my own personal experience.We submit > data feed of products from my clients to various s

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread Mohamed Parvez
I was in your same shoes as yours. And did recommend and implement Solr to my Fortune 10 client. Solr is a great solution and does meet most of the requirements and lacks very few things. In your case, I think you should know that Solr does handle Synonyms very well as long as they are single wor

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread William Pierce
I have used solr extensively for our sites (and for the clients I work with). I think it is great! If you do an item-by-item feature list comparison, I think you will find that solr stacks up quite well. And the price, of course, cannot be beat! However, there are a few intangibles that ma

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread MitchK
As you know, Solr is fully written in Java and Java is still plattform-independent. ;) Learn more about Solr on http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ mrbelvedr wrote: > > That sounds great. Could it also run on Windows? I am interested in > hiring an experienced Solr freelancer to help us set up Solr

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread MitchK
As you know, Solr is fully written in Java and Java is still plattform-independent. ;) Learn more about Solr on http://www.lucene.apache.org/solr mrbelvedr wrote: > > That sounds great. Could it also run on Windows? I am interested in > hiring an experienced Solr freelancer to help us set up S

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread mrbelvedr
That sounds great. Could it also run on Windows? I am interested in hiring an experienced Solr freelancer to help us set up Solr on Windows and configure it to index our products. If anybody is interested please email tmil...@ktait.com Thank you! MitchK wrote: > > > mrbelvedr wrote: >> >> *

Re: Google Commerce Search

2010-01-17 Thread MitchK
mrbelvedr wrote: > > * Index our MS Sql Server 2008 product table > Yes. Have a look at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandlerFaq mrbelvedr wrote: > > * Spell check for product brand names - user enters brand "sharpee" and > the search engine will reply "Did you mean 'Sharpie'? " >