thanks Grant, great pointers! With these and other previous replies I think I'm good to write up a good case for lucene. I'll look for perf numbers over releases (but I don't have the time to create those numbers from scratch unfortunately).
regards, javier On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
