Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
by peterdm on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:58PM
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Until about 2014-2015, many large companies wouldn't have looked twice at Elasticsearch. The companies you list using Solr have been invested in search for 10 years or longer (predating Elasticsearch), and may have high switching costs.
Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
by arafalov on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @09:03AM
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For sure they would have high switching costs. They would be switching from an open-source (and free product) to which they contributed changes to a commercial product. License alone would be a serious discussion point. So, that's a fact.
Was there an opinion in there as well that you tried to convey?
Re:Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
by softliving on Saturday July 20, 2019 @03:21AM
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Bloomberg, Apple, IBM also use Elasticsearch or more Elastic stack!
Also, the new trend in jobs is "Relevancy Engineering", which is less about just setting up search engines and more on actually tuning them. That's where also Machine Learning and other AI techniques come in (Learning to Rank, Named Entity Recognition, sentiment analysis, etc.). Which was recognized by rebranding of the conference from Lucene/Solr revolution to Activate last year.
See also Haystack conference which focuses very specifically on relevance regardless of the specific search engine: https://haystackconf.com/