On Apr 18, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Andy wrote: > Just wanted to know if anyone has used LucidWorks Solr. > > - How do you compare it to the standard Apache Solr?
We take a release of Solr. We wrap it w/ an installer, tomcat/jetty, our reference guide, Luke, etc. We also add in an optimized version of KStem. Finally, we apply certain patches that came after whatever the release was that didn't make it into the release (we usually delay our release by a few weeks). Many of these things we package simply cannot be in an ASF release b/c of ASF policies, others are there for convenience so that people don't have to go all over the web to get them. > > - the non-blocking IO of LucidWorks Solr -- is that for networking IO or disk > IO? what are its effects? I think this is a legacy from the 1.3 CD on our website. I believe what this is referring to is in Solr 1.4, as it was a patch that was applied to trunk after 1.3 was released. I'll let our web team know to update that. > > - LucidWorks website also talked about "significantly improved faceting > performance" -- what improvements are they? How much improvements? Same as the previous issue. I'll let our web team know to update that. > > Would you recommend using it? > Sure, but I'm biased. ;-) Hopefully, you will find it useful, but choose the one that best fits your needs (and let me know if you need help assessing that.) -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com/ Search the Lucene ecosystem using Solr/Lucene: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search
