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Windows, macOS and Linux-based enterprise-search platform

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Apache Solr - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: December 2025

Apache Solr overview

What is Apache Solr?

Apache Solr is a Windows, macOS, and Linux-based enterprise-search platform that helps businesses perform full-text search, database integration, real-time indexing, and other document handling operations. Administrators can utilize the matching engine to locate data based on phrases, wildcards, grouping, and more.

Professionals can use Apache Solr to publish metric data through JMX and gain insights into data instances. Built on Apache Zookeeper, Solr allows enterprises to conduct replication, rebalancing, fault tolerance, and distribution processes on server data. Users can also utilize built-in spatial search to conduct location-based search and analysis tools to send or receive queries for content.

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Apache Solr reviews

Overall rating

4.3

/5

14

Positive reviews

86

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7.71/10
Rating distribution

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Pros
“I worked with Solr for 5 years, so I think that's quite a good recommendation.”
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Radosław C.

bord member

“If you need document indexing, Solr is a great piece of software.”
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Paul A.

Software Engineer III

“We are using Apache Solr as search engine for Full text search as well as Lucene query search. It is stable and provide fast query result.”
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vikram s.

Associate

Cons
“A need for an administrator console to retrieve information in a columnar format that can be queried is missing.”
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Sudharshan S.

Software engineer

“It hits a limitation as full text indexes grow beyond the amount of available memory on the servers.”
NV

Neha V.

Software Engineer

“The query language could be a bit confusing at first. If the collection is large, it often takes a long time to index the data.”
DD

Danoosh D.

Metadata Specialist

Who uses Apache Solr?

Based on 14 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Computer Software
Banking
Entertainment
Information Technology and Services
Others

Use cases

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Apache Solr's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Apache Solr users:

Full text search
Text analysis
Indexing
Faceted search/filtering

All Apache Solr features

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Apache Solr support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Apache Solr FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Apache Solr?

Apache Solr has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. Does Apache Solr offer an API?

No, Apache Solr does not have an API available.

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