ENDECA VS SOLR

OVERVIEWEndeca Solr

A mature product that provides all the GUI based tools needed to allow technology and business to quickly deploy search and navigation based on a queries to a text and object based data model of your products.

An open source community supported tool that allows technology to implement a faceted search capability based on text queries to an index of your products.

Faster Time to Market More ExtensibleGuided Navigation• Data model based

Faced Search• Text search based

Robust Integrated Tool Set Limited tools

TOOLSEndeca Solr

Data Modeling Mature GUI tool set that supports configuration and joining data from multiple sources

XML editing

Index Inspection Robust Reference application to inspect data and explore features

Basis Velocity based application that supports search

Business Users Mature GUI based business suite to manage stop words, synonyms etc.

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Merchandising Mature GUI based business suite to manage merchandising rules

N/A

Reporting Robust set of out of the box reports for search, navigation, and merchandising

N/A

SEARCH/NAVIGATIONEndeca Solr

Relevance Ranking Limited to adjusting modules

Extent the Similar.class to create what you want

XQuery XQuery based ad-hoc querying with XML output.

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Aggregating records Rollup records based on a property to support variants

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Hierarchical Dimensions

You can define true hierarchies to include ranges (A-L, M-Z)

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Internationalization Licensed support for many languages.

Buy and integrate

Clustering Automatic organization of search results into sets that have something in common.

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