Solr/Lucene

Search Revolution
Eric Gries
CEO, Lucid Imagination
DATA EVOLUTION

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 Growth happens
Enterprise Search: $2B market growing ~12% YoY
IDC2009:12%CAGR2007Ͳ2012

WorldwideSearchandDiscoveryMarketRevenue,
2005Ͳ2012($Millions)
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Total $1,806 $2,113 $2,386 $2,612 $2,888 $3,183

Source: IDC, http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/diverse-exploding-digital-universe.pdf

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Growth:Cost

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Commercial Search?

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EVOLUTION TO
REVOLUTION

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Community works

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 Lucene/Solr Happens.

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Lucene/Solr Happens.

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 Enter: Lucene
Low level, high-speed libraries.
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 Enter: Solr
Highly-scalable distributed search server
Faceted navigation,
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grained relevancy tuning, encapsulation of Lucene…

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Search can still be challenging…

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Enter:

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How Lucid Imagination can Help

Open
source Enterprise
community customers

Lucid
Imagination

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Solr/Lucene Successes

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Introducing …

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 LucidWorks Enterprise
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Low level, high-speed libraries for unmatched

indexing, analysis, query processing power

Building on the success of Solr

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 Search within Reach
Smart Defaults
– Get started faster,
slash learning
g curve
ReST APIs
– Easier integration with
other applications
Integrated Doc
acquisition
– Update content more
easily
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 Better Faster.
Better. Faster Solr
Solr.
Contains a complete
Apache Solr version
– Same power in a well-
organized package
More client libraries
– Built in for more
languages/environments
Search innovations
– Click scoring automates
boosting
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select most often
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Lowest Cost of Growth
Scalability
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– Billions of docs, subsecond
query and facet response
Flexibility
– Handle inevitable changes
to search app and content
Reliability
– Timely access to expert
resources

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Scaling Economically

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Reach Solr
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know more about Solr/Lucene Search Revolution at
www.lucidimagination.com

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