FAQ about Solr AEM Integrations

What are all the difference between Solr usage embedded & remote in 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

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