Timeline for Native Magento search vs. SOLR vs. something else?
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| Jun 22, 2015 at 14:54 | comment | added | monosodiumgunnar | I should also add the Sphinx search can use MySQL without having to install Sphinx on a servlet which doesn't play well when the server is chrooting. That extension gives you the option to use an external server, internal, or even a Javascript. The only trade off is speed when indexing which is really poor when using MySQL. | |
| Jun 22, 2015 at 14:50 | comment | added | monosodiumgunnar | I tried running Solr using Tomcat6 on a really dinky VPS, we have ~50,000 products in our catalog and we'd usually hit a deadlock at around 18,000 solr documents. Really, it's best to run it on its own server but for 30 products it's a little overkill to justify the $500 dollars for the only decent Solr extension available and the resources to host Solr on an LAMP. I had really good luck with the extension recommended by Alex magento.stackexchange.com/a/24699/26736 | |
| Sep 6, 2013 at 22:38 | vote | accept | Mark Richman | ||
| Aug 26, 2013 at 12:17 | comment | added | Mark Richman | Thank you very much for the thoughtful and detailed answer. I only have 30 products, and don't expect many more. I'm not sure if the benefit is there for me yet. Do I need a dedicated host to run SOLR, or can it coexist on the web server? (I suppose this is a different question) | |
| Aug 24, 2013 at 12:34 | comment | added | Alex | I think I know two 3rd party search providers, which are quite popular in Germany and offer a Magento module which forwards the query to a SaaS and gets back an list of product ids to be displayed in Magento. | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 22:57 | history | edited | philwinkle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2013 at 20:20 | history | answered | philwinkle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |