Lucene and SOLR Get Commercial Support

ruphus13 writes "Two of the technical leads and core committers of the Lucene Project have launched Lucid Imagination, a venture backed company now offering commercial versions of Lucene and SOLR in the hopes of making it the de facto choice of search technologies used by companies within their products. 'The Lucene search library ranks amongst the top 5 Apache projects, installed at over 4,000 global companies. Although OStatic is primarily Drupal-based, our site's search is based on Lucene. According to Lucid Imagination officials, the Solr search server, which transforms the Lucene search library into a ready-to-use search platform for building applications, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project...Lucid's business model is roughly comparable to Red Hat's very successful model, in that it centers on support and services for free, open source software.'"

Comments

Re:possible alternative: xapian

[Anonymous Coward]

Python is balls slow compared to Java.

And less portable.

Re:oookay.

[girlintraining]

I agree, it could have been more explicit in giving a brief description, but was it really that difficult to glean what it does from the summary?

So they spent $5 million to build a SELECT query? Maybe they have a future in government contract work. More seriously, this is like saying that NASA develops space technologies, space vehicles and is ranked amongst the top five space research agencies. What does that really say? Nothing. The terms are so broad as to offer zero technical insight. I mean, I could interpret my description of NASA to mean they build portable storage pods.

Re:oookay.

[morgan_greywolf]

use SOLR for indexing a few million documents....SOLR does it in less than 1 second no matter what, and actually scales

Nice. Yeah, I'd definitely say that's worth a 5 million bucks.