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Windows, macOS and Linux-based enterprise-search platform

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Apache Solr - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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's key features

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

Full Text Search
Text Analysis
Indexing
Faceted Search/Filtering

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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 reviews

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  • Likelihood to recommend7.71/10
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Pros
I worked with Solr for 5 years, so I think that's quite a good recommendation.
If you need document indexing, Solr is a great piece of software.
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.
Cons
A need for an administrator console to retrieve information in a columnar format that can be queried is missing.
It hits a limitation as full text indexes grow beyond the amount of available memory on the servers.
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.

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

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Q. Does Apache Solr offer an API?

No, Apache Solr does not have an API available.

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