Hi!
Of course the answer depends (as usually) very much on the features
you want to realize. But Solr can be set up very fast. When we created
our first prototype, it took us about a week to get it running with
spell phoneme search, spell checking, facetting - and even collapsing
(using the famous 236-patch).
It is definitely very nice that you can do a lot of things using the
available components and only configuring them inside solrconfig.xml
and schema.xml.
And you may well start with the standard distribution.
Cheers,
Sven
--On Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010 12:00 -0800 Jeff Crump
<jcr...@hq.mercycorps.org> wrote:
Hi,
I hope this message is OK for this list.
I'm looking into search solutions for an intranet site built with Drupal.
Eventually we'd like to scale to enterprise search, which would include
the Drupal site, a document repository, and Jive SBS (collaboration
software). I'm interested in Lucene/Solr because of its scalability,
faceted search and optimization features, and because it is free. Our
problem is that we are a non-profit organization with only three very
busy programmers/sys admins supporting our employees around the world.
To help me argue for Solr in terms of total cost, I'm hoping that members
of this list can share their insights about the following:
* About how many hours of programming did it take you to set up your
instance of Lucene/Solr (not counting time spent on optimization)?
* Are there any disadvantages of going with a certified distribution
rather than the standard distribution?
Thanks and best regards,
Jeff
Jeff Crump
jcr...@hq.mercycorps.org
