Finally a couple of months after the release of the Solr 1.4 distribution by Apache, LucidImagination – a company that deliveres commercial level support for the open source Solr engine – releases their certified version of the Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server.
This distribution contains a comprehensive manual with lots of information on how to setup and use the search server.
The documentation is outstanding in quality and completeness. But that’s not all.
LucidImagination has succeeded in wrapping the Solr software in a user-friendly installer that makes it possible to get the search environment up and running in no time.
The thing that is missing at this moment is a “ready to run” indexing solution for a filesystem with binary documents like PDF’s and Office-type documents.
When they succeed in packaging that type of solution, combined with a ready to run HTTP crawling environment, LucidImagination has the potential of competing with the “big” and expensive enterprise search providers like Autonomy, Microsoft / FAST and Exalead.
Open source search is starting to pick up on the big pie of enterprise search solutions, but lacks the “click and run” possibility that other software vendors offer.
The complexity of getting a Solr solution up and running with real life data sources is what’s holding back the large adoption. It is still too much a toolbox.
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I am affiliated with Exalead. It's great to see open source tools grow and improve - although what we see happening is quite interesting. Analyst and customer feedback on the direction Exalead is taking (more later in 2010) is extraordinary. It's great to see the entire industry, including LucidWorkds for Solr 1.4, move the ball forward.
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