Solr

A scalable Apache platform for searches of data stored, used for full-text search, hit highlighting, dynamic clustering, database integration, has NoSQL features and rich document handling.

First released2004
Developed byYonik Seeley
Latest stable versionSoir 9
Open-sourceYes
Used byBest Buy, eHarmony, DuckDuckGo

Interesting facts

Since the merger of the two projects in 2010 - Lucene and Solr - they are both made by the same team from the Apache Software Foundation, so often these products are referred to as Lucene / Solr or Solr / Lucene.

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