What is better Apache Solr or Google Cloud Search? It’s easy to our scoring system to help you get a general idea which Site Search Solutions product is better for your company. For overall product quality, Apache Solr earned 9.6 points, while Google Cloud Search earned 9.8 points. At the same time, for user satisfaction, Apache Solr scored 97%, while Google Cloud Search scored 96%.
Details about their functions, tools, supported platforms, customer service, and more are available below to help you get a more accurate analysis. Remember to purchase only the features your company needs so as not to waste resources for functions that are unnecessary.
Our experts made sure to review all popular Site Search Solutions services available on the market, but among all the ones we reviewed these three caught our special attention: Amazon CloudSearch, Google Cloud Search, Azure Search.
Apache Lucene is delivered based on the Apache License, a free and liberal software license that allows you to use, modify, and share any Apache software product for personal, commercial, or open source development purposes for free. Thus, you can use Apache Lucene with no enterprise pricing plan to worry about.
Apache Solr supports integration with many content management systems and other business applications and tools such as Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, and Cassandra, and Java Topological Suite library. It also integrates with the following projects and solutions from Apache:
Apache Lucene
Apache Tika
Apache UIMA
Apache Zookeeper
Apache Velocity
Languages Supported
English
Chinese
German
Hindi
Japanese
Spanish
French
Russian
Italian
Dutch
Portugese
Polish
Turkish
Swedish
Arabic
Prominent Clients
Sears, eHarmony, Zappos.com
Available Devices
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone/iPad
Mac
Web-based
Windows Mobile
Company Size
Small Business
Large Enterprises
Medium Business
Freelancers
Available Support
email
phone
live support
training
tickets
General Info
A scalable, reliable, and open source search platform that leverages that capabilities of Apache Lucene and other projects and tools from Apache to boost the search performance of highly-trafficked websites and applications across the world.
Google Cloud Search is available as an add-on of G Suite’s business and enterprise editions. Thus in order to access the software and enjoy its capabilities, you need to purchase either the G Suite Business edition or the G Suite Enterprise edition. Both editions can be purchased through a flexible monthly plan wherein you only need to pay for the G Suite product or service you used for the billed month. You also have the option to add and delete users anytime. Here are the details for G Suite’s SMB and enterprise pricing plans:
Basic
$3/User/Mo.
Professional office suite with 30GB storage
Connect
Gmail-provided business email
Voice and video conferencing
Secure team messaging
Shared calendars
Create
Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
Access
30GB cloud storage
G Suite Business Edition
$10/User/Mo.
Enhanced office suite with unlimited storage and archiving
Connect
Gmail-provided business email
Voice and video conferencing
Secure team messaging
Shared calendars
Create
Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
Access
Unlimted cloud storage (or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users)
Intelligent search throughout G Suite with Cloud Search
Control
24/7 by phone, email, or online
Security and administration controls
Archive and set retention policies for emails and chats
eDiscovery for emails, chats, and files
User activity tracking using audit reports
G Suite Enterprise Edition
$25/User/Mo.
Premium office suite with advanced controls and capabilities
Connect
Gmail-provided business email
Voice and video conferencing
Secure team messaging
Shared calendars
Create
Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
Access
Unlimted cloud storage (or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users)
Intelligent search throughout G Suite with Cloud Search
Control
24/7 by phone, email, or online
Security and administration controls
Archive and set retention policies for emails and chats
Security center for G Suite
eDiscovery for emails, chats, and files
User activity tracking using audit reports
Gmail data loss prevention
Data loss prevention for Drive
Hoste S/MIME for Gmail
Gmail integration with compatible external archiving apps
Enterprise-grade access control with security key enforcement
Google Cloud Search integrates with the following products and services from G Suite:
Gmail
Calendar
Google+
Hangouts Chat
Hangouts Meet
Docs
Sheets
Forms
Slides
Sites
Keep
Drive
Cloud Search
Admin
Vault
Mobile
Languages Supported
English
Chinese
German
Hindi
Japanese
Spanish
French
Russian
Italian
Dutch
Portugese
Polish
Turkish
Swedish
Arabic
Prominent Clients
All Nippon Airways, Somo Insurance, Buurtzorg
Available Devices
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone/iPad
Mac
Web-based
Windows Mobile
Company Size
Small Business
Large Enterprises
Medium Business
Freelancers
Available Support
email
phone
live support
training
tickets
General Info
A market-leading search solution used by organizations, businesses, and professionals to quickly search for content and information across G Suite products and services, allowing them to customize their searches, contact people instantly, retrieve left off files, and keep track of meeting schedules.
If you continue having doubts about which product will perform best for your business it might be a good idea to take a look at each service’s social metrics. Such metrics are frequently an indicator of how popular each software is and how wide is its online presence. For example, in case of Facebook Apache Solr has 1499 likes on their official profile while Google Cloud Search profile is liked by 278655 people.
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