SolR / Lucene based search engines

Solr / Lucene search is a highly scalable open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.

Its major features include:

  • Powerful full-text search
  • Hit highlighting
  • Faceted search
  • Dynamic clustering
  • Database integration
  • Rich document handling
  • Distributed search
  • Index replication

Solr / Lucene search consulting

Our consulting services offer early stage evaluation of your current IT infrastructure, requirements gathering from actual users, feasibility study on Solr implementation, and resulting audit report. After getting to know your organisation, its users and processes, commercial and technical environments, we will be able to offer you a customized search solution that is tailored to your exact specifications, as well as a roadmap for achieving the designated business goals.

Solr / Lucene search implementation

Whether you already have Solr installed and plan to scale it across enterprise, or consider migrating from FAST, Google Search Appliance, Vivisimo, our search experts can lead your organization through a full Solr search implementation life-cycle.

We leverage the power of Solr combined with the latest content management technologies to deliver a more diversified range of search services:

  • Crawling web resources: pages and documents, forums, blogs
  • Content processing and conversion
  • Content enhancement and extraction
  • PDF search by page
  • Alternative search for document management, email
  • Search and database integration

Solr / Lucene search adoption

Search functionality is not something you should take lightly when building a website or application, the Solr search platform will make your production process simpler and more cost-efficient with open source flexibility:

  • Easy to get up and running very quickly
  • Incredibly configurable, if you’re willing to spend the time
  • Lots of features and a simple plugin architecture
  • Vibrant community and good documentation
  • Easy to scale with the replication tools

So, if you plan to have large arrays of data or high search load, consider the limitations of other products to index information or present rich search user experience. With Solr search, it is possible to integrate with any datasource, and display search results in any format desired.