Having worked quite a bit on the Drupal integration - here's my quick take:
If you have someone help you the first time, you can have a basic implementation running in Jetty in about 15 minutes. On your own, a couple hours maybe. For a non-public site (intranet) with modest traffic and no requirements for high availability, that is likely going to hold you for a while. If you are not already using tomcat6 and want a more robust deployment, getting that right will take you a couple days work I'd guess. There are already some options for indexing/searching documents via the Drupal integration, but that's still a little rough. Of course, we'd also be happy to have you get Drupal support and a hosted Solr index from us at Acquia. http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-search-features However, I don't think you'll readily be able to use our service with Jive at the moment - you don't really describe why you'd be using both Jive and Drupal. If you are not doing any customization and compiling the java isn't something you enjoy, I'd think the certified distribution is a fine place to start and you can get with it Lucid's free PDF book, which is, I think, by far the best and most comprehensive Solr 1.4 reference work that exists at the moment. -Peter On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jeff Crump <jcr...@hq.mercycorps.org> wrote: > Hi, > I hope this message is OK for this list. > > I'm looking into search solutions for an intranet site built with Drupal. > Eventually we'd like to scale to enterprise search, which would include the > Drupal site, a document repository, and Jive SBS (collaboration software). > I'm interested in Lucene/Solr because of its scalability, faceted search and > optimization features, and because it is free. Our problem is that we are a > non-profit organization with only three very busy programmers/sys admins > supporting our employees around the world. > > To help me argue for Solr in terms of total cost, I'm hoping that members of > this list can share their insights about the following: > > * About how many hours of programming did it take you to set up your > instance of Lucene/Solr (not counting time spent on optimization)? > > * Are there any disadvantages of going with a certified distribution rather > than the standard distribution? > > > Thanks and best regards, > Jeff > > Jeff Crump > jcr...@hq.mercycorps.org > > > > > > > > > > > -- Peter M. Wolanin, Ph.D. Momentum Specialist, Acquia. Inc. peter.wola...@acquia.com
