Apache Solr

The search server on Lucene that came before Elasticsearch, with faceting, SolrCloud for clusters and dense vector search. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
Apache Software Foundation
Created by
Yonik Seeley
First release
2006
License
Apache-2.0
Open source
Yes
Pricing
Free
Website
https://solr.apache.org
Written in
Java
Data model
Search, Document, Vector
Storage layout
Column-oriented
Workload
Search
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
Lucene syntax, JSON Query DSL, SQL
ACID transactions
No
Schema
Flexible
Deployment
Server, Distributed cluster
Scaling
Sharding
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (High throughput indexing); Read: fast (Fast full-text and faceted queries); Update: slow (Atomic updates still reindex the whole document); Delete: moderate (Marked deleted, removed on segment merge)

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