Re: Solr VS Google Mini Search Appliance

[Alexandre Rafalovitch]

Facets! I believe Google Search Appliance does not support facets. Which
means it supports search, but not post-search results tuning. In general,
custom metadata was problematic with GSA

Cost. I know at least one - very large, international, company moving to
Solr from Google Search Appliance due to the cost. Especially the cost of
indexing multiple distributed large collections. Can't name them publicly,
but if you desperate, contact me in private.

However, I would probably recommend they move (or at least evaluate)
LucidWork's Fusion rather than Solr pure. They may actually find additional
commercial features worth their (expensive, often slow, corporate) time.

Regards,
   Alex.


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On 29 April 2015 at 01:07, Branko Simic <branko.si...@green-river-media.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> We have a client that will have a website in Ektron CMS. As you may know
> Ektron has good integration with Solr and that is primary reason for us
> developers to use it.
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> But the client does not want to switch from their Google Mini Search
> appliance even though Google stopped support for it 3 years ago.
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> We need to make a good case for using Solr over Google Mini. I am
> collecting information all over internet but would also like to hear what
> you have to say as well.
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> Thanks for taking time to read and hopefully answer my email.
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