Thank you Charlie, very informative even if non-scientific. About the aggregations, are they very different from: http://heliosearch.org/solr-facet-functions/ (obviously not yet production ready)?
Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Charlie Hull <char...@flax.co.uk> wrote: > On 01/08/2014 06:43, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: >> >> Maybe Charlie Hull can answer that: >> https://twitter.com/FlaxSearch/status/494859596117602304 . He seems to >> think that - at least in some cases - Solr is faster. > > > I'll try to expand on the tweet. > > Firstly, this is a totally unscientific comparison - we'd like to have time > to develop a proper public demonstration of some of the performance > differences we've found, which hopefully we will soon...so this is far more > anecdotal than statistical! Our eventual intention is to publicise any > differences so the wider community can tell us if we've done something > wrong, or maybe improve one or both engines. Don't get me wrong, we *like* > the fact there are two cool search server projects built on Lucene! > > I can think of three recent projects where we've compared the two - we > wanted to be sure we were using the best fit for our clients: > 1. a search over 40-50 million news stories with relatively complex > filtering requirements - Although ES promised more granular filtering it was > a lot slower to do it. We chose Solr. > 2. a pretty standard intranet search over a few million items that might > require some clever visualisation in a future phase. No real difference in > speed, we chose ES. > 3. a search over 700k items in the recruitment space with some geolocation > filtering - ES seemed to be faster at indexing, but Solr was a lot faster > for searching, and probably will be equivalent at indexing once we do some > tuning. We chose Solr. > > Others have told me that if your documents are rich, choose Solr: if however > you have a large number of more simple documents, choose ES as the scaling > is less painful. If you like old-school XML config, choose Solr: if you're a > bearded hipster running a startup in Shoreditch choose ES. The aggregations > in ES are *way* cool. > > YMMV, of course. The *only* sensible way to choose is to try both with your > data and requirements. Benchmarks are all very well, but they don't > necessarily apply to your situation. > > Cheers > > Charlie > > >> >> I am also doing a talk and a book on Solr vs. ElasticSearch, but I am >> not really planning to address those issues either, only the feature >> comparisons. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov >> Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart >> Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Salman Akram >> <salman.ak...@northbaysolutions.net> wrote: >>> >>> I did see that earlier. My main concern is search >>> performance/scalability/throughput which unfortunately that article >>> didn't >>> address. Any benchmarks or comments about that? >>> >>> We are already using SOLR but there has been a push to check >>> elasticsearch. >>> All the benchmarks I have seen are at least few years old. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Otis Gospodnetic >>> <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Not super fresh, but more recent than the 2 links you sent: >>>> >>>> http://blog.sematext.com/2012/08/23/solr-vs-elasticsearch-part-1-overview/ >>>> >>>> Otis >>>> -- >>>> Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics >>>> Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Salman Akram < >>>> salman.ak...@northbaysolutions.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> This is quite an old discussion. Wanted to check any new comparisons >>>> >>>> after >>>>> >>>>> SOLR 4 especially with regards to performance/scalability/throughput? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Peter <peat...@yahoo.de> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Have a look: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2271600/elasticsearch-sphinx-lucene-solr-xapian-which-fits-for-which-usage >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> http://karussell.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/elasticsearch-vs-solr-lucene/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Peter. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> View this message in context: >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-vs-ElasticSearch-tp3009181p3200492.html >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Salman Akram >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> >>> Salman Akram > > > > -- > Charlie Hull > Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search > > tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 > mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828 > web: www.flax.co.uk
