12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache Solr first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I used Solr back in 2008-2009 or so and it did a great job... Then we had a requirement for something like Elasticsearch's percolate query functionality, which Solr didn't support. So we switched”
mixed · production · 1 yr · lastofthemojito · 2024-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Solr gives you excellent full-text search, and makes a lot of architectural trade-offs to achieve this.”
endorse · production · pixelmonkey · 2012-04-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we replaced sixteen extremely beefy postgres slaves with four commodity solr boxes with plenty of headroom to spare.”
endorse · production · mcfunley · 2012-01-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we used Solr to maintain a smaller index and have never looked back since.”
endorse · production · ankimal · 2010-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Solr for some pretty heavy lifting, and it's incredibly impressive. Rock solid”
endorse · production · storm · 2010-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also used Solr and Lucene before that.”
neutral · production · jillesvangurp · 2020-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“also update the Solr index (using Jackson data binding to JSON)”
neutral · production · parasubvert · 2017-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As someone who uses Solr in production and doesn't blog about it, I would estimate that happens a lot.”
neutral · production · fusiongyro · 2016-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“free text or social graph or location based search which we moved to Solr.”
neutral · production · sriku · 2015-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it finally bombed out after several requests ... on something related to apachesolr”
neutral · production · Jgrubb · 2013-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“significantly meatier servers for our backends running PostgreSQL/Solr/Redis.”
neutral · production · simonw · 2012-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We stopped using it in production and moved to Solr.”
neutral · production · pbharrin · 2012-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?