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Solr pros and cons

Vendor: Apache
3.9 out of 5
 

Solr Pros review quotes

it_user4230 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Product at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
Jul 7, 2015
We use Solr to index over 600k documents; it's very fast, flexible to use, and the speed of indexing individual documents has been great.
it_user803529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer, Search at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 17, 2018
It has improved our search ranking, relevancy, search performance, and user retention.
it_user823641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Search Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Jun 6, 2021
The most valuable feature is the ability to perform a natural language search.
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reviewer1368636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Jul 8, 2020
One of the best aspects of the solution is the indexing. It's already indexed to all the fields in the category. We don't need to spend so much extra effort to do the indexing. It's great.
 

Solr Cons review quotes

it_user4230 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Product at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
Jul 7, 2015
Memory utilization could be better but it is an industrial strength tool so some overhead is to be expected.
it_user803529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer, Search at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 17, 2018
SolrCloud stability, indexing and commit speed, and real-time Indexing need improvement.
it_user823641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Search Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Jun 6, 2021
The performance for this solution, in terms of queries, could be improved.
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reviewer1368636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Jul 8, 2020
It does take a little bit of effort to use and understand the solution. It would help us a lot if the solution offered up more documentation or tutorials to help with training or troubleshooting.