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Hadoop Use Case: A Scalable Vertical Search Engine

January 27, 2012 AT 10:06 AM
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This search technology content is part of the Solr-Lucene Microzone, supported by Lucid Imagination, a company of Solr/Lucene all-stars that provides free distributions, training, and a search application development platform called LucidWorks Enterprise.

In this slidehow, Iván de Prado explains in some detail why you might want to consider building a scalable vertical search engine with Hadoop, showing when to use and when to avoid both simpler and more complex solutions.

 

 

This content on search technology is part of the Solr-Lucene Microzone, supported by Lucid Imagination. They can help you harness the full potential of search through their enterprise Solr development platform—LucidWorks Enterprise—which can make your production process simpler and more cost-efficient with open source configurability.