http://simonwillison.net/2010-09-02T18:01:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-09-02T18:01:00+00:002010-09-02T18:01:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Sep/2/who-are-major-competitors/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Who-are-major-competitors-to-Solr/answer/Simon-Willison">Who are major competitors to Solr?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>ElasticSearch is a really interesting one - it's the same underlying search library (Lucene) and the same integration model (an HTTP interface) but takes quite a different approach. It hasn't been around for a long time but it looks very impressive: <span><a href="http://www.elasticsearch.com/">http://www.elasticsearch.com/</a></span></p> <p>Other than that, popular open source search engines include Sphinx and Xapian. I'm a big fan of talking to a search engine via HTTP, so I've been keeping an eye on the <span><a href="http://www.flax.co.uk/">http://www.flax.co.uk/</a></span> project which does that for Xapian.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apache">apache</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lucene">lucene</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search">search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search-engines">search-engines</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/solr">solr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sphinx-search">sphinx-search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xapian">xapian</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a></p>

2009-02-14T13:15:15+00:002009-02-14T13:15:15+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/14/xapian/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://xapian.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/xapian-performance-comparision-with-whoosh/">Xapian performance comparision with Whoosh</a></strong></p> Whoosh appears to be around four times slower than Xapian for indexing and empty cache searches, but Xapian with a full cache blows Whoosh out of the water (5408 searches/second compared to 26.3). Considering how fast Xapian is, that’s still a pretty impressive result for the pure-Python Whoosh. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/full-text-search">full-text-search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-boulton">richard-boulton</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/search">search</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/whoosh">whoosh</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xapian">xapian</a></p>