SOLR is, first and foremost, a text searching tool that scales. Are you searching lots of text here or not? There are situations in which you need both in order to accomplish your business needs, so asking "which one is best" is tricky to answer....
FWIW Erick On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Ken Lane (kenlane) <kenl...@cisco.com>wrote: > We are knee-deep in a Solr project to provide a web services layer > between our Oracle DB's and a web front end to be named later to > supplement our numerous Business Intelligence dashboards. Someone from a > peer group questioned why we selected Solr rather than Compass to start > development. The real reason is that we had not heard of Compass until > that comment. Now I need to come up with a better answer. > > > > Does anyone out there have experience in both approaches who might be > able to give a quick compare and contrast? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Ken > >
