Apache Solr Alternatives

Apache Solr is described as 'Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document handling' and is a Search Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Apache Solr for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, Self-Hosted, Mac and Windows apps. The best Apache Solr alternative is Algolia. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Algolia or Elasticsearch. Other great apps like Apache Solr are OpenSearch, Manticore search, Searchspring and Carrot2.

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  1. Toshi icon
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    Toshi is meant to be a full-text search engine similar to Elasticsearch. Toshi strives to be to Elasticsearch what Tantivy is to Lucene.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. RediSearch icon
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    Redisearch implements a search engine on top of Redis, but unlike other Redis search libraries, it does not use internal data structures like sorted sets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Elasticlunr.js, lightweight full-text search engine in Javascript for browser search and offline search. Elasticlunr.js is developed based on Lunr.js, but more flexible than lunr.js. Elasticlunr.js provides Query-Time boosting and field search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. i-Search Pro changes the way of WordPress Search. It’s full WooCommerce compatible. Provide Live search results in milliseconds. Include almost everything in your search results.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
    • wordpress i-search pro is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Apache Solr.

    • wordpress i-search pro is Paid and ProprietaryApache Solr is Free and Open Source
  5. Site Search 360 icon
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    An intelligent yet easy-to-install site search for any website. Simply start typing to get search autosuggestions and semantically enriched structured data at your fingertips.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. OpenSearchServer is an open source application server allowing development of index-based applications like search engines. Main features of OpenSearchServer are : An integrated crawler for databases, web pages and rich documents; a user friendly GUI allowing development of most...

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Xapian icon
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    Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a full text search engine library for programmers. It is written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Ambar icon
     4 likes

    Ambar is a smart documents archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  9. ItemsAPI icon
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    The goal of ItemsAPI is creating search application without spending time for backend. You just provide json data and your backend is ready to go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • elasticsearch
    • Heroku
    • Node.JS
     
  10. Expertrec custom search started as a replacement for google site search. It adds super-fast search autocomplete, spell correct, search listing pages to your website.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Comments about Expertrec Search Engine as an Alternative to Apache Solr
    melchi sundararaj
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    Expertrec is a hosted solr solution. No solr expertise needed. Just put in your url and you get your search.

    Apache Solr Icon
    Expertrec Search Engine icon
    • Expertrec Search Engine is Paid and ProprietaryApache Solr is Free and Open Source
  11. strus icon
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    The open source (GPL v3) project strus provides a collection of programs and libraries (language C++) for building a competitive scalable full-text search engine. The search index is distributable and user rights can be implemented.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. FreeFind icon
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    Free site search engine. Add a site search engine to your website today, for free, in less than ten minutes. Choose from Free and Pro site search engines.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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