As the commercial company for Apache Lucene/Solr open source search, Lucid Imagination delivers the leading edge, lowest cost, best performing most flexible and scalable search technology on the planet. We combine the raw power of open source innovation with rock-solid enterprise-grade software and services. Use our technology to build better, faster, lower-cost search applications that transform the ever-growing stream of content and data into competitive advantage.

• LucidWorks is the Search Platform that packages a complete, current and integrated Apache Solr/Lucene release, combines all the very latest Solr/Lucene features with powerful tools and conveniences you won't find in the conventional open source distribution. But you don't need to be familiar with Solr in order to build search applications with LucidWorks Enterprise.
  

• Certified Distributions by Lucid Imagination give experienced open source application developers the latest improvements available from the Apache project in a well-packaged, integrated, supportable release curated by the experts at Lucid Imagination. 

Lucene and Solr are complementary implementations of the same technology of the Apache Lucene Project, with highly similar underlying capabilities. In choosing a search solution that is best suited for your requirements, key factors to consider are application scope, development environment, and software development preferences.

• Lucene presents a collection of directly callable Java libraries and requires coding and solid information retrieval experience. It is a Java technology-based search library that offers speed, relevancy ranking, complete query capabilities, portability, scalability, and low overhead indexes and rapid incremental indexing.
• Solr is the Lucene Search Server. It presents a web service layer built atop Lucene using the Lucene search library and extending it to provide application users with a ready-to-use search platform. Solr brings with it operational and administrative capabilities like web services, faceting, configurable schema, caching, replication, and administrative tools for configuration, data loading, statistics, logging, cache management, and more. Solr extends the capabilities of Lucene to provide a more complete search platform.