Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-25 Thread jm
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

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-25 Thread Grant Ingersoll
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, im

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-25 Thread jm
Itamar Syn-Hershko wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com] >> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 1:09 AM >> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition >

RE: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-24 Thread Itamar Syn-Hershko
> -Original Message- > From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 1:09 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition > > And I was just thinking the othe

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-24 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ - Original Message > From: jm > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thu, June 24, 2010 3:50:58 AM > Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition > > I want to add some perf numbers

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-24 Thread jm
http://search-lucene.com/ > > > > - Original Message >> From: jm >> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org >> Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 5:57:32 PM >> Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition >> >> yes, in my case

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
search :: http://search-lucene.com/ - Original Message > From: jm > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 5:57:32 PM > Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition > > yes, in my case the competition is one of the list...

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
p://search-lucene.com/ - Original Message > From: Itamar Syn-Hershko > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 5:54:34 PM > Subject: RE: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition > > Otis, I'm 99% sure Attivio is just a wrapper arrou

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Erick Erickson
> > dtSearch > > ISYS > > Oracle > > ... > > ... > > > > Otis > > > > Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch > > Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ > > > > > > > > - Original Messag

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread jm
rkl >> To: java-user >> Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 5:15:46 PM >> Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition >> >> Just curious. What commercial alternatives are out there? > > On Wed, Jun 23, >> 2010 at 04:01, jm < >>

RE: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Itamar Syn-Hershko
12:42 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition > > Off the top of my head: > > FAST > Endeca > Coveo > Attivio > Vivisimo > Google Search Appliance > (tell me when to stop) > Dieselpoint

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
-lucene.com/ - Original Message > From: Hans Merkl > To: java-user > Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 5:15:46 PM > Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition > > Just curious. What commercial alternatives are out there? On Wed, Jun 23, > 2010

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Hans Merkl
Just curious. What commercial alternatives are out there? On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:01, 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

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread jm
thanks guys, those links are cool. I welcome any other positive thing anyone can add. Specially references of products/sites moving to lucene/solr javier On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > Lucene/Solr choice typically means: > > * lower cost of ownership (think about var

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
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 commerci

Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition

2010-06-23 Thread Erick Erickson
One thing to consider is that you have access to the source, so worst-case you won't be cut off at the knees by the commercial vendor. Case in point: Fast was acquired by Microsoft, who have since dropped all future Unix development. Hope all Fast users really like running their apps on Windows se