Lucene/Solr choice typically means: * lower cost of ownership (think about various crazy licensing models some of the commercial search vendors have: per doc, per server, per query, per year....)
* faster implementation (just think about the duration of the sales/negotiation phase for commercial search vendors) * flexibility -- it's open source, you can change whatever you want. Try that with closed-source commercial search vendor's package. * super fast and knowledgeable community -- see http://www.jroller.com/otis/entry/lucene_solr_nutch_amazing_tech * commercial support and experts still available -- see http://www.sematext.com/services/index.html * adoption - small companies, medium companies, HUGE companies, secret organizations, everyone's using some form of Lucene -- see http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/PoweredBy , http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers * maturity - Lucene is over 10 years old. Solr is over 4 years old. * future - look at JIRA, look at mailing list traffic, look at pace of development, look at CHANGES.txt * searchable documentation and mailing list archives -- http://search-lucene.com/ * ... Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: jm <jmugur...@gmail.com> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 4:01:05 AM > Subject: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition > > Hi, I am trying to compile some arguments in favour of lucene > as management is deciding weather to standardize on lucene or a > competing commercial product (we have a couple of produc, one using > lucene, another using commercial product, imagine what am i using). I > searched the lists but could not find any post, although I remember seeing > such posts in the past. Does somebody kept such posts linked or > something? Or does someone know of some page that would help me? I > would like to show: - traction of lucene, really improving a lot last couple > of years - rich ecosystem (solr...) - references of other companies > choosing lucene/solr over commercial (be it Fast or > whatever) thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To > unsubscribe, e-mail: > href="mailto:java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org";>java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For > additional commands, e-mail: > ymailto="mailto:java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org"; > href="mailto:java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org";>java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
