Does open source Lucene/Solr require more outside assistance than comparable commercial products?

No.

(I’m tempted to stop there, but that’s not quite fair.)

That was, in essence, a question posed by Daniel Tunkelang on his blog in his commentary on the launch of Lucid Imagination. It’s a fair one to ask and an issue that has been raised before.

First, some distinctions. Lucene is a Java search library with best practice indexing and query capabilities that have been continuously improved…

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