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Apache Solr vs Azure Search: What are the differences?

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1. **Scalability:** Apache Solr is a scalable search platform that can handle large amounts of data and traffic, while Azure Search is limited in scalability depending on the selected pricing tier.
2. **Integration:** Apache Solr offers more flexibility in terms of integration with custom applications and data sources, compared to Azure Search which is tightly integrated with Azure services.
3. **Language Support:** Apache Solr provides extensive multilingual support with built-in capabilities for handling various languages, while Azure Search has limitations in language processing and support.
4. **Documentation and Community Support:** Apache Solr has a well-documented open-source community with a large user base, offering extensive resources and support, whereas Azure Search has limited documentation and community support.
5. **Cost:** Apache Solr is open-source and free to use, with costs associated mainly with hosting and maintenance, while Azure Search is a paid service with pricing based on usage and features.
6. **Administration and Maintenance:** Apache Solr requires more technical expertise for administration and maintenance, including setup and configuration, compared to the more user-friendly interface and management tools provided by Azure Search.

In Summary, Apache Solr offers more scalability, flexibility in integration, and multilingual support with a strong community, while Azure Search provides seamless integration with Azure services, simplified administration, and a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
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    What is Apache Solr?

    It uses the tools you use to make application building a snap. It is built on the battle-tested Apache Zookeeper, it makes it easy to scale up and down.

    What is Azure Search?

    Azure Search makes it easy to add powerful and sophisticated search capabilities to your website or application. Quickly and easily tune search results and construct rich, fine-tuned ranking models to tie search results to business goals. Reliable throughput and storage provide fast search indexing and querying to support time-sensitive search scenarios.

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    What are some alternatives to Apache Solr and Azure Search?
    Splunk
    It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
    Lucene
    Lucene Core, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities.
    Elasticsearch
    Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).
    MongoDB
    MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
    Apache Spark
    Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.
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