By providing a search solution development platform with a fast, flexible architecture built on Open Source, LucidWorks Enterprise harnesses the power of Lucene/Solr in a convenient, well-curated package. It unlocks innovation, streamlines development, and helps tame the complexity of search development for expert and novice application developers alike.
With transparent open source foundations, built and tested from the best of current Solr trunk, LucidWorks Enterprise harnesses the best of open source:
Liberal license terms The Apache Software License used by Lucene/Solr allows users to modify or embed the technology as they see fit, and to keep proprietary, sell and or re-distribute any add-ons they develop
Broad Community Innovation As one of the top 15 open source projects, Lucene has a very active and thriving user community, with over 4,000 customer deployments. Contributions from across a diverse set of applications and users results in more innovation, fewer bugs, code that is more stable and more thoroughly road-tested, easier-to-integrate, and a broad, rich feature set
Transparent Technology Lucene/Solr source code hides nothing. There is no mystery in the underlying search algorithms and operations, and so you can focus on your specific business logic.
Pay at the Point of Value Because open source project code is freely available for any use, at any time, there's no need for you to pay up front before your project is ready for productions. Only when you see value – such as for support, integration, or additional functionality or expertise – is there a need to pay. The LucidWorks Enterprise Developer Access release, for development purposes, is now available in limited distribution
Transparent Roadmaps Community developed software enables global visibility into what is being built and what features will be included as early as possible. You need not to wait for a vendor to publish a roadmap, or for a product launch to know what is in the pipeline. That transparency enables better, faster, and more informed decisions relating to your software infrastructure.
Development by Meritocracy With the collective experience of the community scrutinizing the code and the software continuously, widely-used open source software like Lucene/Solr is essentially under constant, rigorous peer review, with results governed by the best and brightest.
Control Your Own Destiny No one company controls Lucene/Solr. No one controls your software but you, so you avoid the traps of vendor lock-in or being tied to commercial platforms with hidden agendas or punitive pricing models.
By using LucidWorks Enterprise to build your search application, you get a robust solution development platform that captures the full benefit open source Lucene/Solr. By integrating vital enabling features that accelerate productivity, you get the breadth and creativity of open source in a reliable, predictable stable package. And, to ensure you can build and deploy your business-critical search application successfully, available LucidWorks Enterprise subscriptions provides vital depth to your search development efforts, adding time-critical response, on-demand expertise and best practices, vital along with a range of options for SLA-based support, training and consulting that the community innovation process does not.
LucidWorks Enterprise – scaling economically with a fast, flexible architecture built on open source.