Also chime in on other options I’m familiar with: - Hosted Solr (searchstax/websolr) to manage the ops of a pure open source product. I’m a big fan of both companies for removing ops headaches and focusing more on value add for open source
- Voyager Search for spatial focused enterprise search using Solr On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:30 PM Doug Turnbull < dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > Used Fusion an a couple projects, > > *Pros:* > *-* Wraps Solr, so you should be able to do anything you can do in Solr > in Fusion > - 'Opinionated' Solr - Annoying problems I see on every team, solved with > common tooling (experiments, signal collection, etc). Can save tons of work. > - Relevance focused - good defaults for relevance work, built by people > like Trey/Grant who are smart about this stuff > - It's really a very good 'relevance IDE' - Still allows all the > customization of Solr, plus a dose of extra customization you can do with > Fusion based on open source tools > > *Cons* > - It's in part a closed source search product, so if it gets acquired, you > can get stuck depending on a closed source product that gets abandoned. See > Fast, GSA, etc > - You'll need to fit into the opinions, and be OK with the Fusion way of > thinking > - Can be hard to tell where Solr ends and Fusion begins, if you want to > limit your dependency on Fusion > > Sure I'm missing stuff. It's one of the best search products out there, in > my opinion. But a search product isn't for anyone. (see > http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2017/04/29/choosing-proprietary-vs-open-source-search/ > ) > > I'm always happy to talk 1-1 about any search product :) > > Hope that helps > -Doug > > > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:28 PM Jamie Keenan <j.kee...@mcpartners.co.uk> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> I was recommended to reach out by Ramkumar Aiyengar – I have known him >> for quite a while and I wanted to get some advice on Solr / Lucence… >> >> >> >> To give you a bit of context – I am the founder of a boutique search firm >> with a big vision on augmenting what we do with technology as there is >> nothing that works well in our market (or as well as we would like…). We >> have SOLR at present and we were considering fusion so I wanted to gain >> some insights from the community about what we can achieve with SOLR / >> Lucence. >> >> >> >> We are trying to build an industry leading search engine for talent! At >> present, we have SOLR installed on our internal servers and we want to >> really unlock it’s power. We currently use sovren to parse our data into >> XML format and we add relevant metadata as we engage with talent, we also >> have a pretty strong data model and a good idea of what we want a search >> engine to do for us. The bigger vision is to work on a product roadmap to >> create an innovative and intuitive search system to make sense of much >> larger sets of data, such as online profiles as well as incorporating >> machine learning into its approach to achieve great things. We are just at >> the beginning of this journey but we know there is nothing out there that >> works like this presently – even Linkedin is flawed (even as a >> multi-billion dollar company) >> >> >> >> I would love to share our ideas, explain what we have at the moment along >> with our vision for the product to see what you think we could achieve and >> of course the best way to do it! To do this, we really need to think >> outside of the box and the conventional tools out there – hence the big >> vision! 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