Hi Charlie, Thanks a lot for your response
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Charlie Hull <char...@flax.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/02/2015 03:03, Richard Gibbs wrote: > >> Hi There, >> >> I am in the process of choosing a search technology for one of my projects >> and I was looking into Solr and Elasticsearch. >> >> Two features that I am more interested are geo aggregations (for map >> clustering) and search alerts. Elasticsearch seem to have these two >> features built-in. >> >> http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/ >> current/geo-aggs.html >> http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/ >> reference/current/search-percolate.html >> >> I couldn't find relevant documentation for Solr and therefore not sure >> whether these features are readily available in Solr. Can you please let >> me >> know whether these features are available in Solr? If not, whether there >> are solutions to achieve same with Solr. >> > > Hi Richard, > > I don't know about geo aggregations, although I know the Heliosearch guys > and others have been working on various facet statistics that may impinge > on this. http://heliosearch.org/solr-facet-functions/ > > For alerting, you're talking about storing queries and running them > against any new document to see if it matches. We do this a lot for clients > needing large scale media monitoring and auto-classification - here's the > Lucene-based library we released: > https://github.com/flaxsearch/luwak > Note that this depends on a patched Lucene currently, but I'm very happy > to say that a client is funding us to merge this back to trunk and we > expect Luwak to be be able to a 5.x release of Lucene. More news very soon! > There are a couple of videos on that page that will explain further. We > suspect our approach is considerably faster than the Percolator, and it's > on the list to benchmark the two. > > Cheers > > Charlie > > >> Thank you. >> >> > > -- > Charlie Hull > Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search > > tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 > mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828 > web: www.flax.co.uk >
