Apache 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.
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Luigi's Box
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Luigi’s Box solutions understand customer behavior, and use data to provide better search results, recommend relevant products, and enhance the shopping experience to boost your e-commerce conversion rates and average order values. Search and Autocomplete Recommender Product Listing Shopping Assistant Analytics
Apache Lucene offers great full-text search library that makes it easy to add search functionality to a website or other applications. Lucene is ideal if you want low-level access to the indexes and its APIs. For general purposes, Apache Solr, the web application built atop of Lucene can be used instead. Apache Solr comes with caching, HTTP/ JSON APIs and a simple web administration console.
Luigi's Box is the perfect solution for sales platforms that have search engine problems on their site. Luigi's Box allows you to go to the next level and enable customers to find what they are looking for. With additional options to recommend and indicate substitutes and add-on products, it can work great as a sales-boosting element.
We had difficulty porting the project to a cluster based environment on the cloud.
For our particular use case of retrieving documents based on text pattern matching, the program worked efficiently however, we did not find many resources for image pattern recognition based on their metadata.
Luigi's Box just slots in nicely to the website with very little code and has no negative impact on pagespeed scores. Having been using it for a number of months now, we have had no bugs or downtime. The search functionality works for every customer and even our staff use it every day to get to the product they want faster.
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.
In my opinion, Luigi's Box is superior. It was much easier to implement, customer service was better, the search results are much more accurate, the customization options are much more advanced, the analytics section is superior and the price for all of the tools that Luigi's Box has to offer is extremely reasonable. We did also try to build our own product in house, but this proved very difficult and complicated to get the results we wanted.
