Hadoop Distros Orbit Around Solr

Hadoop Distros Orbit Around Solr

Isaac Lopez With recent announcements, the open source search tool, Solr has become a notable focus of at least two Hadoop distro vendors. MapR and Cloudera have recently made announcements addressing the need for easier access to the data across the organization using search. Last month, as part of their M7 release announcement, MapR gave details on their partnership with LucidWorks, introducing a beta stage integration of LucidWorks Search with the MapR distribution of Apache Hadoop. In conjunction, Cloudera today announced that they, too, are launching a beta search project. Both search projects involve the Apache Solr search platform that grew from the Apache Lucene project started by Hadoop founder, Doug Cutting.  Solr has been around as an open source project since 2006, and has gained a lot of traction in that time, becoming one of the most widely installed search engines. As both vendors snap Lucene/Solr into their Hadoop distro,

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