RE: Endeca to Solr Migration
We migrated a big application from Endeca (6.0, I think) a several years ago. We were not using any of the business UI tools, but we found that Solr is a lot more flexible and performant than Endeca. But with more flexibility comes more you need to know. The hardest thing was to migrate the Endeca dimensions to Solr facets. We had endeca-api specific dependencies throughout the application, even in the presentation layer. We ended up writing a bridge api that allowed us to keep our endeca-specific code and translate the queries to solr queries. We are storing a cross-reference between the N values from Endeca and key/value pairs to translate something like N=4000 to fq=Language:English. With solr, there is more you need to do in your app that the backend doesn't manage for you. In the end, though, it lets you sparate your concerns better. James Dyer Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 -Original Message- From: mrg81 [mailto:maya...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 1:11 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Endeca to Solr Migration Hello -- I wanted to get some details on Endeca to Solr Migration. I am interested in few topics: 1. We would like to migrate the Faceted Navigation, Boosting individual records and a few other items. 2. But the biggest question is about the UI [Experience Manager] - I have not found a tool that comes close to Experience Manager. I did read about Hue [In response to Gareth's question on Migration], but it seems that we will have to do a lot of customization to use that. Questions: 1. Is there a UI that we can use? Is it possible to un-hook the Experience Manager UI and point to Solr? 2. How long does a typical migration take? Assuming that we have to migrate the Faceted Navigation and Boosted records? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Endeca-to-Solr-Migration-tp4144582.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Endeca to Solr Migration
Thanks Mikhail. In your opinion, is this something that be done in 4-6 months? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Endeca-to-Solr-Migration-tp4144582p4144664.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Endeca to Solr Migration
Yes. I think so, but the scope seems challenging. On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:13 PM, mrg81 maya...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mikhail. In your opinion, is this something that be done in 4-6 months? -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Endeca-to-Solr-Migration-tp4144582p4144664.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev Principal Engineer, Grid Dynamics http://www.griddynamics.com mkhlud...@griddynamics.com
Re: Endeca to Solr Migration
Hello, Please check inlined below On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:10 PM, mrg81 maya...@gmail.com wrote: Hello -- I wanted to get some details on Endeca to Solr Migration. I am interested in few topics: 1. We would like to migrate the Faceted Navigation, Boosting individual records and a few other items. 2. But the biggest question is about the UI [Experience Manager] - I have not found a tool that comes close to Experience Manager. I did read about Hue [In response to Gareth's question on Migration], but it seems that we will have to do a lot of customization to use that. Questions: 1. Is there a UI that we can use? Is it possible to un-hook the Experience Manager UI and point to Solr? AFAIK, Experience Manager is close to Adobe's one, and they are both are clones of guess what.. http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ (check wiki for jcr or try to visit day.com). I suppose you can employ almost any CMS system instead, which you consider affordable and handy. 2. How long does a typical migration take? Assuming that we have to migrate the Faceted Navigation and Boosted records? I suppose it's not a piece of cake.. I suppose that it takes few month mid size project to launch it. The challenges are: - Faceted Navigation, which is done via Dimensions, exposed to frontend that's quite unnatural for Solr. To be honest, Solr doesn't navigate taxonomies out-of-the-box, but just provides a few hints to do so. Also, navigating nested SKUs sometimes reveals some gaps, you know... - Endeca also has some smart text search features like phrase guessing or so. It's need to research how much you relies on it, and leverage some Solr's straightforwardness note: - whatever boosting not a problem for Solr - Hue is a data analytic interactive UI or even IDE, I don't think you need to look at. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Endeca-to-Solr-Migration-tp4144582.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev Principal Engineer, Grid Dynamics http://www.griddynamics.com mkhlud...@griddynamics.com
