Searchkick vs Solr: What are the differences?

Searchkick: Intelligent search made easy. Searchkick learns what your users are looking for. As more people search, it gets smarter and the results get better. It’s friendly for developers - and magical for your users; Solr: An open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication etc. 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.

Searchkick and Solr can be primarily classified as "Search Engines" tools.

Some of the features offered by Searchkick are:

• stemming - tomatoes matches tomato
• special characters - jalapeno matches jalapeño
• extra whitespace - dishwasher matches dish washer

On the other hand, Solr provides the following key features:

• Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities
• Optimized for High Volume Web Traffic
• Standards Based Open Interfaces - XML, JSON and HTTP

Searchkick is an open source tool with 4.96K GitHub stars and 582 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Searchkick's open source repository on GitHub.