Re: Making a case to migrate from GSA to Solr

2012-09-26 Thread Erik Hatcher
Matthew - I (and others at Lucid) worked with The Motley Fool to convert them from the GSA to Solr a few years ago with great success. They had a variety of data sources (relational databases, XML feeds, etc) that smoothly went into Solr and drastically improved their search relevancy and user

Re: Making a case to migrate from GSA to Solr

2012-09-25 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi Matthew, Solr can do everything you mentioned. Re 3) This won't show anywhere in the UI, but you will get errors in the indexer during indexing. Re 5) You may want to search search-lucene.com for info about boolean queries, which are not true boolean, in case true boolean is really what you n

Re: Making a case to migrate from GSA to Solr

2012-09-25 Thread vikash . iitb
Solr can handle all of your pain points. You can sort with any indexed field. It returns correct count. Faceting is trivial. OR conditions are totally fine, it can handle really complex conditional statements. Sent from my iPad On 26-Sep-2012, at 12:48 AM, Matthew Shapiro wrote: > Hi all, I

Making a case to migrate from GSA to Solr

2012-09-25 Thread Matthew Shapiro
Hi all, I don't know if this is the correct mailing list, so I apologize if it isn't. I wasn't sure what other list it would go to. Anyways, my company a while back (before I started) got Google envy and decided to purchase a GSA system to store our searchable data. While the GSA seems ok for a