Apache Solr
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Jan 4, 2026first mention
Oct 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“one day I'd love Apache Nutch/StormCrawler and a real SE, e.g. Solr”
“replicated solr in a way that has increased performance and relieved some of the pressure on our main cluster”
Open Library staffon “Keep Our Servers Running”
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“Spring Boot, HTMX, Postgresql, Valkey, Solr”
Caveats and dissent
“Solr performance, it currently gets quite slow under load”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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Also written as Solr. Data: apache-solr.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“one day I'd love Apache Nutch/StormCrawler and a real SE, e.g. Solr”
“replicated solr in a way that has increased performance and relieved some of the pressure on our main cluster”
“Solr performance, it currently gets quite slow under load”
“ElasticSearch/SOLR”
“get Apache Solr working in the latest version of Spring Framework 7”
“combined it with a solr backend”
“Spring Boot, HTMX, Postgresql, Valkey, Solr”
> there is a Drupal 7 site that I need to migrate to something You may be interested in Backdrop, which is a maintained fork of Drupal 7. https://backdropcms.org/ (No experience with it personally. Only know about it from a friend who uses it.)