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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apache Lucene

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AApache Lucene is an open source and free text search engine library written in Java. It is a technology suitable for applications that requires full-text search, and is available cross-platform.

    $0

    per month

    Elasticsearch

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AElasticsearch is an enterprise search tool from Elastic in Mountain View, California.

    $16

    per month

    Pricing
    Apache LuceneElasticsearch
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard
    $16.00
    per month
    Gold
    $19.00
    per month
    Platinum
    $22.00
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    Apache LuceneElasticsearch
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA free and open source product.
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    Community Pulse
    Apache LuceneElasticsearch
    Considered Both Products
    Apache
    Chose Apache Lucene
    The search and index performance of [Apache] Lucene is excellent and the quality of results is good, if not better. For implementing it with small scale applications it is a no brainer, Lucene is the best and most cost effective solution. Learning curve is not too steep either.
    Incentivized
    Elastic
    Chose Elasticsearch
    Elasticsearch is based off of Apache Lucene. You get the same power as well as a JSON response. REST API is simple and easy to understand. Other options include XML responses which is much more complicated to parse at times.
    Incentivized
    Chose Elasticsearch
    Almost no one uses Solr anymore--most have migrated to Elasticsearch. I've never tried it myself but I heard Solr is much more difficult to configure and because it doesn't use a REST API, it locks you into Java and XML. XML--ick!
    Lucene: Elasticsearch is built using Lucene …
    Incentivized
    Chose Elasticsearch
    The only other competitor we researched was mongo as some of our table information is stored in an XML file, but as we were doing searching we gravitated towards Elasticsearch. We knew mongo had some of the qualifications for what we wanted, but went with Elasticsearch for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Elasticsearch
    Apache Solr is the closest competitor to ElasticSearch from a search engine perspective. ElasticSearch is simple and streamlined in it's configuration. When taken as a whole, Apache Solr is more robust as a storage engine from a developer perspective, ElasticSearch has the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Elasticsearch
    Even though Lucene is very powerful it is not easy to implement Lucene as a search provider. Lucene is the core of Elasticsearch and they made implementation very easy.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Apache LuceneElasticsearch
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)