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Apache Solr

byApache Software Foundation
in
4.2
Market Presence: Insight Engines (Transitioning to Enterprise AI Search), Enterprise Search Engines

Overview

Overall experience with Apache Solr

SENIOR DIRECTOR
10B - 30B USD, Energy and Utilities
FAVORABLE

“Apache Solr provides powerful and flexible enterprise search with advanced full text document capabilities”

4.0
Aug 26, 2025
Advanced full text search incl usage of Natural Language Processing (NLP) Scalability across large, multi-node deployments along with high availability
CTO
250M - 500M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Navigating the Intricacies of Solr Hosting Companies”

3.0
Sep 26, 2024
Cumbersome. It has become incredibly difficult to find companies doing Solr hosting as a business. Configuration is complex compared to other search engines

About Company

Company Details

Updated 9th August 2024
Head office location
United States

Key Insights

A Snapshot of What Matters - Based on Validated User Reviews

Reviewer Insights for: Apache Solr
Performance of Apache Solr Across Market Features

Apache Solr Likes & Dislikes

Like

Rich document handling making it ideal for Enterprise content management Apache Solr is highly configurable, supporting fine grained relevance tuning, custom analyzers, etc Built in faceting empowers dynamic filtering and exploration critical in e-commerce scenarios

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It has been widely adopted in a range of popular open source applications, and it is well supported by many backend libraries.

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Like

Flexibility, you can configure every component pretty well

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Dislike

Complexity of deployment and setup, including upgrades, requires significant technical skills and planning Resource intensive scaling esp for any mission critical environments Out of the box Solr lags in the native Machine learning support

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Dislike

Complex configuration compared to other search engines without a real difference in outcome, schema management might be less than ideal for many apps; scaling challenges will surface one the app grows. Limited real-time capabilities, and requires Zookeeper to be running

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Well, java is eating memory very intensive, so you need big boxes for what you are doing

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Peer Discussions

Apache Solr Reviews and Ratings

4.2

(47 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
43%
4 Star
51%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • SENIOR DIRECTOR
    10B+ USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    Apache Solr provides powerful and flexible enterprise search with advanced full text document capabilities

    4.0
    Aug 25, 2025
    Advanced full text search incl usage of Natural Language Processing (NLP) Scalability across large, multi-node deployments along with high availability
  • ENGINEERING MANAGER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Apache Solr Offers Strong Flexibility But Demands Significant Memory Resources

    4.0
    Sep 16, 2025
    Experience was pleasant, we went deep into Apache Solr features and get it working for our client
  • Software Developer
    <50M USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Scalable Search Engine With Advanced Features Requires Significant Maintenance Effort

    4.0
    Sep 10, 2025
    Powerful and reliable for enterprise search, but requires significant expertise to configure and maintain effectively.
  • CTO
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Scalability and Robustness with SOLR on large E-Commerce Platforms

    5.0
    Sep 3, 2025
    I have used SOLR twice on e-commerce websites with approximately 6M products. I have never hit limits, things that have been made impossible by the software.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Enterprise-Grade Search Engine with powerful indexing and query features

    4.0
    Sep 9, 2025
    Apache Solr has been a reliable and scalable search platform in our tech stack.
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