Flexibility is key.
Need to get under the covers? With LucidWorks Enterprise, you have complete access to source code and full control of all aspects of data sources, document acquisition, query behaviors, results relevancy, deployment configuration, in a convenient, well-organized set of interfaces. As the only search platform to scale economically, LucidWorks Enterprise is uniquely suited to transforming the best search technology a tight, dynamic fit with your own company needs, processes, and applications.
There is complete portability as well, since Lucene/Solr runs on any platform supporting Java, and indexes are portable across platforms – for example, you can build an index on Linux and copy it to a Microsoft Windows machine and search it there. There are countless plug-ins available so that the architecture is fully extensible.
More Productive
Need to get rolling quickly? LucidWorks Enterprise comes pre-configured with smart defaults, slashing the learning curve, and enabling a broad range of development skillsets. Its integrated document acquistion lets you add, index, and update documents. Near-realtime indexing capabilities make documents available for search almost instantly as they are indexed. Working prototypes can be up and running in hours, not days. And with a LucidWorks Enterprise Application Development Subscription, you get access to the world's best Lucene/Solr and Enterprise Search Experts, providing critical depth to your search solution development effort.
Need performance and scalability? Lucene and Solr provide the key functionality required for optimal search performance, tuneable relevancy, and massive distributed. Lucene/Solr are optimized for high volume traffic and large numbers of documents. Users such as MySpace and LinkedIn have demonstrated the ability to scale to billions of document and petabytes of data, with thousands of queries per second.