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Situations to prefer Apache Lucene over Solr?

Asked 2010-05-18T10:43:16.870
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There are several advantages to use Solr 1.4 (out-of-the-box facetting search, grouping, replication, http administration vs. luke, ...).

Even if I embed a search-functionality in my Java application I could use SolrJ to avoid the HTTP trade-off when using Solr. Is SolrJ recommended at all?

So, when would you recommend to use "pure-Lucene"? Does it have a better performance or requires less RAM? Is it better unit-testable?

PS: I am aware of this question.

java search lucene solr solrj
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If you want to completely embed your search functionality within your application and do not want to maintain a separate process like Solr, using Lucene is probably preferable. Per example, a desktop application might need some search functionality (like the Eclipse IDE that uses Lucene for searching its documentation). You probably don't want this kind of application to launch a heavy process like Solr.

answered 2010-05-18T12:23:48.260

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