# Apache Solr Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Apache Solr the right Enterprise Search solution for you? Explore 14 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/170161/Apache-Solr/reviews --- Apache Solr 4.3 (14) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Apache Solr Ease of use 3.9 Customer Service 3.6 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-14 of 14 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use vikram S. Associate Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Search Engine" February 23, 2023 5.0 We are using Apache Solr as search engine for Full text search as well as Lucene query search. It is stable and provide fast query result. It is also resilient in term of indexing ,filter search etc. Apache solr is easy to integrate with any other project. Pros Apache Solr is best search engine for full text search and Lucene query search. We are using Solr as search engine with alfresco content management solution. Solr provide high speed search with scalability feature . Solr indexing process is also resilient in nature so hardly we face any indexing issue . Cons I haven't found any bug or issue yet . It is working very smoothly with our application. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sr. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A futuristic search engine having lot of features" January 28, 2023 5.0 Apache Solr allows us improve our project search feature, it helps us to genrate varouris facets to filter products and also reduce query time as its all content is pre-indexd Pros Apache solr is one of the best in its category (open source), it has many features and from indexing to relevence search, it can be used for small to large enterpise application for in-house search engine with fully customized schema/schemaless index text content. Cons Its overall good, but there is less resource to learn and fully understant its concepts in one go Review Source Sudharshan S. Software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Excellent Document DB + Search software" August 2, 2019 3.0 Great, better than sharepoint search. Customizable, extensibiliy with load balancers are great, Clustering, Document sharding are great and wonderful features. Overall, this is a great product . Pros Delta query, Quick retrieval, Faster indexing, Schema definitions, Synonyms the features are endless. it almost behaves as a Database. Can integrate with any database i.e any data source. Document sharding and clustering are excellent features. Cons I doubt that the product will extend its life span as the cloud can retrieve terabytes of data in a minute. What is missing is a single grid widget or tool that apache solr can provide that can search and display like 6 to 10 million records. A need for an administrator console to retrieve information in a columnar format that can be queried is missing. Eg: Datagrid, JQGrid or a datatable like inbuild javascript library based grids. Alternatives considered [Microsoft SharePoint](https://www.capterra.com/p/1167/SharePoint/)[Microsoft Power BI](https://www.capterra.com/p/176586/Power-BI/) Reason for choosing Apache Solr ease of use , developer friendly. .net libraries were easily available. Review Source RC Radosław C. bord member Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "SOLR the way it should be searched" March 5, 2024 5.0 I worked with Solr for 5 years, so I think that's quite a good recommendation. If the product were bad, I wouldn't have used it for so long. Pros Good price, great features, very good performance. Cons Very difficult to integrate, weak support, hard to develop further. Review Source lahiru W. software enginner Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "good text based search engine" October 28, 2019 5.0 i integrate this application one of my best applications. experience is awesome Pros easy to setup this application and very fast, can integrated with many framework and its simple. it has a good manageable dashboard also Cons solr queries bit complex and some queries are hard to implement in other computer languages. support is very slow Review Source DJ Dinesh J. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Extremely fast Seaching" October 18, 2018 5.0 Pros Apache Solr is a Java based, advanced search index. You can index your data in the form of documents and then query it as per your needs. The Query speed is extremely fast, It provides response only in a few milli seconds even for a complex data query. It enables you to have catalog searching, and type ahead search in your application. Suitable for data, that needs frequent searching and fetching. Cons For a practical use, you will always need to keep your database and solr indexes in sync, which requires careful designing of application. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Search Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Reasonably good search tool for e-commerce" August 16, 2018 3.0 It is fine for e-commerce - no complaints there. I would like to see more enhancements to help users integrate with more third party tools, though. Pros We use it solely for e-commerce and it lends itself well to those needs, with suitable filtering options to offer an Amazon-like experience for visitors wanting to 'drill' into categories, etc. Cons Unfortunately, it doesn't easily integrate with other tools we use, at least not in our experience. For that reason, we are considering alternatives that would perhaps be more comprehensive. Review Source Paul A. Software Engineer III Telecommunications Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "If you need document indexing, Solr is a great piece of software." July 10, 2018 4.0 If you need document indexing, I would recommend this. But then again, I'm not in the need for anything more. Pros It took me a little while to get up-to-speed with Solr, but only because I didn't know the terminology. This was my first look into document indexing, and I have to say I was very impressed. Documentation was an absolute must for me, but it wasn't lacking, with good examples. Cons Steep learning curve, but then it's not something you need to learn every day. I can't fault it other than that. Review Source Marco I. System Analyst Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Open source search engine" March 13, 2018 4.0 I used it for a web crawling scenario. In this case I used it together with Apache Nutch, not a native plugin has been provided. Documentation could be more clear and complete. Pros SOLR is a very flexible search engine, with a lot of feature for this specific topic. Easy to configure using a GUI. Review Source JA Jay A. Sr. Principal Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great search engine and easy to use" May 15, 2019 4.0 I used Solr in a hack-a-thon to build a consolidated search engine for internal company assets. It performed flawlessly and we had it up in running in just a few hours feeding it data. Our web front-end had no problems integrating with it either. Solid product. Pros Easy to Use Good integration Easy to manage Cons No cons that I can think of at the moment. Review Source DD Danoosh D. Metadata Specialist Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "We use solr to index our institutional repository data " April 9, 2018 4.0 Pros It is very flexible and customize-able which makes it very easy to integrate-able with other components in the development stack. Cons the query language could be a bit confusing at first. If the collection is large, it often takes a long time to index the data. Review Source PS Priyansh S. Database Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Type Ahead Search With Apache Solr" September 12, 2018 5.0 Pros Apache Solr provides you with a search indexer. You can store data in it. Its query speed is very very fast like say in milliseconds. You can provide results for query, while user is still typing the query. Very Suitable for real-time search requirements. It stores data in documents and you can query these document to search matched documents for as per search criteria. Cons Once Apache Solr was best Search Indexer, now it competitor Elastic Search is providing same features or even better than Apache Solr. Review Source HS Harpal S. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Support Free Text Search" August 16, 2018 4.0 We populated Category and search pages of an ecommerce website using apache solr. Pros Apache solr provides with document indexing, which can be used for searching and data retrival at a very fast speed. It can query thousand of records in a fraction of seconds. Very Fact and Efficient for complex data queries. Cons You will need to keep your dbms and Apache Solr in sync, which can be a hectic task. Also in todays world elastic search provides a lot more than apache solr. Review Source NV Neha V. Software Engineer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Reliable and very scalable indexing software that I have used" March 13, 2018 4.0 Pros (1) It is highly scalable (2) It is based on a distributed model (3) load balancing happens by default when querying (4) Indexing is really fast Cons It hits a limitation as full text indexes grow beyond the amount of available memory on the servers Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Enterprise Search](https://www.capterra.com/enterprise-search-software/)