Re: Solr VS Google Mini Search Appliance

2015-04-28 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
Facets! I believe Google Search Appliance does not support facets. Which means it supports search, but not post-search results tuning. In general, custom metadata was problematic with GSA Cost. I know at least one - very large, international, company moving to Solr from Google Search Appliance due

Re: Solr VS Google Mini Search Appliance

2015-04-28 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, frankly if what they have already serves their needs, I see no reason they should switch. Investing time and effort in "more modern technology" without a compelling reason is a waste. Personally, I'd just leave the argument there. Talk to the stake-holders in the product and get them to list

RE: Solr VS Google Mini Search Appliance

2015-04-28 Thread Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]
stems/Applications Architect (Contractor), Office of Computer and Communications Systems, National Library of Medicine, NIH From: Branko Simic [mailto:branko.si...@green-river-media.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11:07 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Solr VS Google Mini Search Appliance

Solr VS Google Mini Search Appliance

2015-04-28 Thread Branko Simic
Hi, We have a client that will have a website in Ektron CMS. As you may know Ektron has good integration with Solr and that is primary reason for us developers to use it. But the client does not want to switch from their Google Mini Search appliance even though Google stopped support for it 3