What are all the difference between Solr usage embedded & remote in AEM?
Difference between Solr & Lucene
Advantages of using Solr search
Below given major advantages of using Solr as indexing/ search engine with AEM.
- Embedded Solr is recommended only for development purpose. Production search can be implemented using remote/ external Solr. This way it makes the solution more scalable.
- If the site has smaller content, embedded could be used. but for larger content, external Solr is recommended.
- When we work with external Solr, we have more control over schema, index options, boosting fields, more direct configurations etc.
- External Solr is recommended when data/ content from third party applications needs to be indexed than from AEM.
Difference between Solr & Lucene
- Lucene is the core search engine and Solr is a wrapper on Lucene. To read data from Lucene we need programs. But Solr provides a UI thus making easier to read indexed data.
Advantages of using Solr search
Below given major advantages of using Solr as indexing/ search engine with AEM.
- Quick learning curve.
- Horizontal & vertical scaling through Solr Cloud
- Clustering through Apache Zookeeper
- Rich full text query syntax
- Highly configurable relevance and indexing
- Plugin architecture for query parsing, searching & ranking, indexing
