Solr is the Lucene search server. It presents a web service layer built atop the Lucene search library, 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."With Solr/Lucene and Lucid imagination we were able to increase end user satisfaction by delivering more timely, accurate search results than we previously delivered, so people found what they were looking for faster."
IT Vice President, Small Business Media & Entertainment Company