Compared to Solr (with Solr Cloud), what is the advantage(s) of Elasticsearch?

2013-12-24 Thread Daniel Guo
I never used Apache Solr before, and I'm trying ElasticSearch in my project. The document of ES is a little scarce, but I have to explain to my supervisor why I chose ES over Solr. As far as I know, Solr (with Solr Cloud) also supports distributed indexing, near real-time update and searching,

Re: Compared to Solr (with Solr Cloud), what is the advantage(s) of Elasticsearch?

2013-12-24 Thread David Pilato
I would say: play with both for some hours. I really think you will get some answers by yourself! I don't want to say more than this as I have probably a biased opinion ;-) --  David Pilato | Technical Advocate | Elasticsearch.com @dadoonet | @elasticsearchfr Le 24 décembre 2013 at 15:16:59,

Re: Compared to Solr (with Solr Cloud), what is the advantage(s) of Elasticsearch?

2013-12-24 Thread Nikolas Everett
About six months ago I spent a week porting a prototype from Solr Cloud to Elasticsearch with the intent of evaluating Elasticsearch and either throwing out the port or building off of it. By the third day or so I was convinced I'd stick with Elasticsearch because: 1. I was impressed with