Endeca Vs Solr

E-Commerce Search

Endeca and Solr are the best in class enterprise search engines, widely used, standard-ed,proven and highly scalable .This article describes both search engines capabilities and limitations , which are the key factors to decide best fit for your business needs.

Key differences of Endeca and Solr  are listed in the following.

Area	Capability	Endeca	Solr
Application Layer
	Java Interface	Supported	Supported
	.NET Interface	Not Supported	Supported
	REST Interface	Supported	Supported
	UI Templates( Dynamic Pages Creation by using Templates)	Supported	Not Supported
Search Engine
	Guided Navigation	Supported	Supported
	Business Rules	Supported	Not Supported
	Thesaurus	Supported	Supported
	Stemming	Supported	Supported
	Spell Correction	Supported	Supported
	Analytics	Supported	Not Supported
	Language Support	Supported	Supported
	Dimension Grouping	Supported	Not Supported
	Search Interface.Search with in defined properties and Dimensions	Supported	Not Supported
	Relevance Ranking	Supported	Supported
	Custom Relevance Ranking	Not Supported	Supported
	Dimension Search	Supported	Supported
	Clustering Results	Supported	Supported
	Filtering using Properties and Dimensions	Supported	Supported
	Filtering using Range Values	Supported	Supported
	Sorting & Paging	Supported	Supported
	Dimension Precedence Rules	Supported	Not Supported
	Snippeting	Supported	Supported
	Record Aggregation	Supported	Supported
	Autosuggest	Supported	Supported
	Search and Refine Results	Supported	Supported
	Match Mode, Proximity Search	Supported	Supported
	Automatic Phrasing	Supported	Supported
	Wildcard Search	Supported	Supported
	Keyword Redirect	Supported	Not Supported
	Auto-Correct	Supported	Supported
	Did You Mean	Supported	Supported
	Prot Words	Not Supported	Supported
	Facets Dimension Value SyNot Supporttednyms	Supported	Not Supported
	Stop Word	Supported	Supported
Business Tools
	Reporting	Supported	Not Supported
	Deployment Management	Supported	Not Supported
	Search Configurations Management	Supported	Not Supported
	Page layout / Configurations	Supported	Not Supported
	Channel Specific Pages	Supported	Not Supported
	Business Rules Management	Supported	Not Supported
	Dimension Value Boost/Bury	Supported	Not Supported
	Record Boost/Bury	Supported	Not Supported
	Content Spotlight	Supported	Not Supported
	Multi Site - Site Specific Pages, Business Rules	Supported	Not Supported
	User Segments	Supported	Not Supported
	Reference Application	Supported	Not Supported
Indexing
	Complex Data Joins	Supported	Supported
	Data Process Pipeline	Supported	Supported
	Data Cleansing	Supported	Supported
	Data Extraction From Multiple Sources	Supported	Supported
	File Crawler	Supported	Not Supported
	Web Crawler	Supported	Not Supported
	Data Indexing From RDBMS	Supported	Supported
	XML Files Indexing	Supported	Supported
	Replication	Supported	Supported
	Data Sharding	Not Supported	Supported
	Apache Zookeeper Support	Not Supported	Supported
	Incremental Updates	Supported	Supported
	Indexing as REST Service	Not Supported	Supported

	Data Indexing From RDBMS	Supported	Supported
	XML Files Indexing	Supported	Supported

Other
	Cache Optimization	Not supported	Supported
	Open Source	Not Supported	Supported
	Data Model based Search	Supported	Not supported
	Text Search	Not Supported	Supported
	Support Service Tickets for Issues	Supported	Not supported
	Performance Monitor	Supported	Not Supported
	Relevance Ranking Evaluator	Supported	Not supported
	Schema Modelling	Supported	Not Supported
	Search Engine Logs Analyzer	Supported	Not supported

	Search Engine Optimization	Supported	Not Supported
	Sitemaps Generator	Supported	Not Supported