Not to sound rude, but frankly I am already getting sick of all of these
false accusations. All I wanted to know was whether or not anybody ever
tried to switch search engines. I was in the understanding that for the
product searches, OFBiz was using Lucene (and yes, I was fully aware that
Solr is based upon Lucene, didn't I stay that clearly?) - since that was
obviously not the case I then asked which Search engine (if any) was in the
use. I did not intend to sell a product here, nor am I interested in
pursuading the rest of you into using Solr.
The reason to why I, personally, want to use Solr however, is because I have
come to know and like this engine on different projects of mine. It is
incredibly fast, and can do alot more than most other search engines can.
The "faceted browsing", for instance, allows the user to dig deeper into the
search results and narrow the results by keywords (or in other words facets
that apply to any given object - it lists criteria so to speak that help
users narrow down results by manufacturer, price, or author or whatever). It
is also extremely powerful when it comes to correcting the userinput. It
analyzes the input text and corrects any misspellings:
"Example queries demonstrating relevancy improving transformations:
* A search for power-shot matches PowerShot, and adata matches A-DATA
due to the use of WordDelimiterFilter and LowerCaseFilter.
* A search for name:printers matches Printer, and features:recharging
matches Rechargeable due to stemming with the EnglishPorterFilter.
* A search for "1 gigabyte" matches things with GB, and pixima matches
Pixma due to use of a SynonymFilter.
" (from: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html#Text+Analysis
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html#Text+Analysis )
I haven't seen that implemented in OFBiz, but if I am mistaken, I all be
gladly proven otherwise.
Final question? What engine do we use for product searches then? Cached
Fulltext-queries?
Don't get me wrong - still very grateful for an honest, not offending
answer...
Cheers,
Paul
P.S.:Instead of proprietary i meant native, btw - not all of us are native
speakers you know... sorry
P.P.S.: Solr is a stand-alone application and communicates through a port -
hence my misunderstanding that Lucene would do the same - I have worked with
Solr, not lucene
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