What is Solr?
Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.
Solr is a tool in the Search Tools category of a tech stack.
Why developers like Solr
Powerful
Indexing and searching
Scalable
Customizable
Enterprise Ready
Restful
Apache Software Foundation
Great Search engine
Security built-in