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Cisco, proud to work with OpenSource Connections

We recently wrapped up Solr project with Cisco that turned out to be one of our most interesting and challenging projects to date. While we can not disclose some of the most interesting details of our project, the work entailed pushing Solr to limits that we had not previously witnessed. In addition, the use-case was significantly outside of what we normally see with Solr. Solr has become a cornerstone for full-text search, but it turns out to be very fast and well-suited as a general analytics engine! In our project, rather than dealing with fields composed of natural text, we were concerned with documents composed almost exclusively of numerical values and collections of hierarchical tags. At the pinnacle of our work, we were able to ingest 30K such documents per second while at the same time providing rich, highly faceted search. This will allow users to slice and dice the data set and return only the documents of interest.

Heres what Cisco had to say about our work:

Thanks to OpenSource Connections for so quickly picking up our requirements and coming up with multiple plausible solutions. We really appreciated your focused approach to problem solving. I know that “search” per se is a wide field but you helped us narrow it down to our context quite effectively with Solr.

Do you have a unique use case for Solr? Are you pushing Solr to new extremes? Let us know, we can probably help you out!