Can we integrate Apache solr search in Magento Community Edition

Question

I wanted to know can we integrate apache solr search in magento community edition 1.7.0.2 Till now I tried this link for installing solr solr apache installation on windows.I was able to install solr using this tutorial.But how can I integrate solr search with magento?

Answer 1

Only EE support Solr integration from the scratch, but there are some Community third-party modules available:

• http://code.google.com/p/magento-solr/
• http://solrgento.de/
• http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/solr-bridge-search.html

Or build youself an extension based on one of the PHP Solr librarys:

• https://code.google.com/p/solr-php-client/
• http://www.solarium-project.org/

Answer 2

magentix/Solr, see https://github.com/magentix/Solr, uses a pretty simple strategy on updating the search index. There will be limitations for larger data sets (or the need to have a large amount of ram). It simply writes the content of the catalogsearch_fulltext table into the Solr index holding the whole data in the memory. This has been observed in version 1.1.0.

solrgento, see http://solrgento.de/, uses a more sophisticated approach on solr index updates by a close integration in the Magento index update process. It can handle even really large sets of products and attributes without problems. The support for the module is quity responsive.