ES is somewhat popular in the enterprise WordPress space, driven largely by 10up's ElasticPress plugin which uses it both for search and to improve the performance of database queries over MySQL.
Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
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Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#92Elasticsearch, definitely. I always recommend using it in hosted form and not running your own cluster. That allows you to focus on getting data in and out of your cluster instead of sinking time into doing devops. While I have not used Solr recently, it has evolved along with ES as a solid product with a solid community. Nothing against it; it's a solid choice and there are probably people offering to host that as w…
We host a smallish (12 large node) cluster ourselves on AWS, and it's been nothing but SUPER SOLID for us. Literally 0 issues in the year. We use it for analytics, aggregations and the like, as well as domain-specific search, for which it's a great fit.
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#93Yes but the search market has shifted. We're at a point where Lucene and family are used for increasingly sophisticated use cases. The commodity end of the market used to be dominated by open source (Solr connected to Drupal for example) Now for commodity sites there’s so many SaaS search products it doesn’t make as much sense to hook up Solr or ES to make your blog or university website or whatever searchable. A lot…
100% agreed. This is what my company uses ES for, and it's exceptional at it.
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#94Oh yes. This is industry tested technology.
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#95Still using Lucene here searching through short text documents in a Java based server product.
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#96Elasticsearch, definitely. I always recommend using it in hosted form and not running your own cluster. That allows you to focus on getting data in and out of your cluster instead of sinking time into doing devops. While I have not used Solr recently, it has evolved along with ES as a solid product with a solid community. Nothing against it; it's a solid choice and there are probably people offering to host that as w…
We host a smallish (12 large node) cluster ourselves on AWS, and it's been nothing but SUPER SOLID for us. Literally 0 issues in the year. We use it for analytics, aggregations and the like, as well as domain-specific search, for which it's a great fit.
I agree, if ES is scaled well for your usage it just keeps going. However, a big time sink for me has been reindexing, lost data due to bad mapping, and version incompatibilities.
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#97Yes. Also, just recently MongoDB v4.2 added Lucene as an embedded engine for text search capabilities
Do you know if it is coming to the community edition or is it only for Atlas?
Atlas.
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#98While I was at Eventbrite we were using Solr and started moving to Elasticsearch. I know one of the main people I worked with on that recently left for Github, which also uses Elasticsearch. At Mozilla I work one project with a search component ( https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/ ), and it uses Elasticsearch.
:handwave:
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#99We do at Vimeo: I gave a talk this week at the NY Elasticsearch meetup about a new search product we built using ES.
If you're interested you can access the recording of the livestream here: https://vimeo.com/348443979
The product in question is https://vimeo.com/stock
Re: Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
#100From my experience, yes. Lucene is a "production" state of art library and Solr/Elasticsearch is very used in many scenarios. This expertise is very on demand. My company personally migrated from ElasticSearch to https://vespa.ai/ and could not be happier. Faster and way easier to maintain a cluster. The "Application Packages" feature present in Vespa opened many opportunities to improve our product( Curiously we use…
I am very interested in hearing about your experiences migrating to vespa. When it was opensourced we all thought it would be an absolute game-changer, but I see so few people building new products (or migrating existing products to) vespa.