Lucene vs Solr vs Sphinx
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Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. | Lucene Core, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. | It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server. |
Advanced full-text search capabilities;
Optimized for high volume web traffic;
Standards-based open interfaces - XML, JSON and HTTP;
Comprehensive HTML administration interfaces;
Server statistics exposed over JMX for monitoring;
Linearly scalable, auto index replication, auto-failover and recovery;
Near real-time indexing;
Flexible and adaptable with XML configuration;
Extensible plugin architecture | over 150GB/hour on modern hardware;small RAM requirements -- only 1MB heap;incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing;index size roughly 20-30% the size of text indexed;ranked searching -- best results returned first;many powerful query types: phrase queries, wildcard queries, proximity queries, range queries;fielded searching (e.g. title, author, contents);sorting by any field;multiple-index searching with merged results;allows simultaneous update and searching;flexible faceting, highlighting, joins and result grouping;fast, memory-efficient and typo-tolerant suggesters;pluggable ranking models, including the Vector Space Model and Okapi BM25;configurable storage engine (codecs) | Output formats: HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text;Extensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of information;Hierarchical structure: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children;Automatic indices: general index as well as a language-specific module indices;Code handling: automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter;Extensions: automatic testing of code snippets, inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more |
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Dejavu
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Elassandra
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Tantivy
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Jina
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YugabyteDB
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Mirage
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Searchkick
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