Ask HN: Implementing Catalog Search with Elastic Search or Apache Solr

3 points by HenryTheHorse 11y ago ↗ HN

Can someone shed light on the complexities of implementing Elastic Search or Apache Solr/Lucene for product catalog search (e-commerce scenario) as opposed to going with something out of the box (Amazon)? What are the different technical skills needed for such an implementation?

2 comments

[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 14.2 ms ] thread

WaltPurvis 11y ago ↗

I think the gold standard these days is Algolia. I'd check into that.

HenryTheHorse 11y ago ↗

Thanks, but we were evaluating on-premise solutions (as opposed to cloud/SaaS-based options).