Hi JM, On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:01 AM, jm wrote:
> 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 I'd venture to say it is the most used search library in the world, but I can't back it up w/ real numbers, unfortunately, at this point; but it is based on the fact that not only is it widely deployed via Solr/Nutch and in custom implementations, but several of the large commercial players use it as well so anytime you buy them, you are buying Lucene as well. Some actual numbers: the Open Source Census has it at #8: https://www.osscensus.org/summary-report-public.php in a list of most popular open source projects > - rich ecosystem (solr...) Tika, Mahout, Nutch, UIMA, etc. all fit nicely into this ecosystem. There are also a lot of non-ASF projects that work in as well. > - references of other companies choosing lucene/solr over commercial > (be it Fast or whatever) We have a lot of case studies over at http://www.lucidimagination.com/, including several that highlight replacements of the commercial players. -Grant -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com/ Search the Lucene ecosystem using Solr/Lucene: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
